| Lygus punctatus | |
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| Lygus punctatus. Adult | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Lygus |
| Species: | L. punctatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lygus punctatus (Zetterstedt, 1838) | |
| Synonyms [1] [2] | |
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Lygus punctatus is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. [3] [1]
This species can be found in most Europe [4] and Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and Southern Asia. [1] [2] [3]
Lygus punctatus can reach a body length of about 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in). [5] [6] These bugs have shining and more or less distinct reddish, orange-red or brownish red pronotum and hemelytra. Lateral margin of pronotum is rounded. Scutellum is deeply punctate and not swollen. Middle of corium is less densely and less coarsely punctate than other parts of hemelytra. [7]
Adults have been recorded highly abundant on alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ). [7]
Medicago is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as medick or burclover, in the legume family (Fabaceae). It contains at least 87 species and is distributed mainly around the Mediterranean Basin, and extending across temperate Eurasia and sub-Saharan Africa. The best-known member of the genus is alfalfa, an important forage crop, and the genus name is based on the Latin name for that plant, medica, from Greek: μηδική (πόα) Median (grass). Most members of the genus are low, creeping herbs, resembling clover, but with burs. However, alfalfa grows to a height of 1 meter, and tree medick is a shrub. Members of the genus are known to produce bioactive compounds such as medicarpin and medicagenic acid. Chromosome numbers in Medicago range from 2n = 14 to 48.
The Miridae are a large and diverse insect family at one time known by the taxonomic synonym Capsidae. Species in the family may be referred to as capsid bugs or "mirid bugs". Common names include plant bugs, leaf bugs, and grass bugs. It is the largest family of true bugs belonging to the suborder Heteroptera; it includes over 10,000 known species, and new ones are being described constantly. Most widely known mirids are species that are notorious agricultural pests that pierce plant tissues, feed on the sap, and sometimes transmit viral plant diseases. Some species however, are predatory.
The genus Lygus includes over 40 species of plant-feeding insects in the family Miridae. The term lygus bug is used for any member of genus Lygus.
The tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris, is a species of plant-feeding insect in the family Miridae. It has piercing-sucking mouthparts and has become a serious pest on small fruits and vegetables in North America. It is considered a highly polyphagous species and feeds on over half of all commercially grown crop plants, but favors cotton, alfalfa, beans, stone fruits, and conifer seedlings. A study done in southwestern Quebec, Canada has investigated the presence of L. lineolaris in a commercial vineyard. This study also indicated that weeds that grow from cultivation of crops serve as an important food source for L. lineolaris. This insect can be found across North America, from northern Canada to southern Mexico. Adults grow up to 6.5 mm in length, and are brown with accents of yellow, orange or red, with a light-colored "V" on the back (dorsal). The genome has recently been sequenced for the first time.
A trap crop is a plant that attracts agricultural pests, usually insects, away from nearby target crops. This form of companion planting can save a target crop from decimation by pests without the use of artificial pesticides. A trap crop is used for attracting the insect and pests away from a target crop field. Many trap crops have successfully diverted pests from focal crops in small scale greenhouse, garden and field experiments; a small portion of these plants have been shown to reduce pest damage at larger commercial scales. A common explanation for reported trap cropping failures, is that attractive trap plants only protect nearby plants if the insects do not move back into the target crop. In a review of 100 trap cropping examples in 2006, only 10 trap crops were classified as successful at a commercial scale, and in all successful cases, trap cropping was supplemented with management practices that specifically limited insect dispersal from the trap crop back into the target crop.
Adelphocoris lineolatus, is commonly known as the Lucerne bug or the alfalfa plant bug, and belongs to the family Miridae. It is an agricultural pest causing vast amounts of damage to numerous crops, but primarily to alfalfa crops around the globe.
Stenotus binotatus is a species of plant bug, originally from Europe, but now also established across North America and New Zealand. It is 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long, yellowish, with darker markings on the pronotum and forewings. It feeds on various grasses, and can be a pest of crops such as wheat.
Liocoris tripustulatus or the common nettle bug is a species of plant bug belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781.
Lygus pratensis is a species of plant bug belonging to the family Miridae.
Adelphocoris rapidus, common names for which are rapid plant bug or superb plant bug, is a species of Hemiptera in the family Miridae, that can be found everywhere in the United States, and in the Peace–Athabasca Delta, Canada. The species are larger than other members of the family, and are either yellowish-black or orange-black coloured.
Campyloneura virgula is a species of bugs in Miridae family. It is the only species in the genus CampyloneuraFieber, 1861.
Liocoris is a genus of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae. It has only one species.
Piezodorus lituratus, the gorse shield bug, is a species of Pentatomidae, a family of shield bugs.
Lygus wagneri is a species of plant bug belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
Brachycoleus decolor is a species of plant-feeding insects of the family Miridae.
Lygus gemellatus is a species of plant-feeding insects in the family Miridae.
Lygus rugulipennis, the European tarnished plant bug, is a species of plant bugs of the family Miridae.
Lygus abroniae is a species in the family Miridae, in the order Hemiptera . It is found in North America.
Macrolophus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are at least 20 described species in Macrolophus.
Heterogaster urticae, common name nettle ground bug, is a species of true bug in the family Heterogastridae.
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