Notostira erratica

Erratic Plant Bug
Notostira erratica, Latvia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Genus:	Notostira
Species:	N. erratica
Binomial name
Notostira erratica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notostira erratica, known as the erratic plant bug, is a species of bugs from a Miridae family, subfamily Mirinae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Azores, Benelux, Faroe Islands, Madeira, Malta, and African and Asia ones such as Canary Islands and Cyprus. ^{[1] [2]}

Biology

Occurs on dry grass-dominated areas where it lives on various grasses, notably Calamagrostis and Alopecurus .

As in N. elongata males winter in the egg stage, and the females wintering in the imago.

References

1. "Notostira erratica (Linnaeus, 1758)". Fauna Europaea . 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
2. Kerzhner I. M.; Josifov M. (1999). "Family Miridae". In Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3, Cimicomorpha II. Amsterdam: Netherlands Entomological Society. pp. 1–577, page 190. ISBN   978-90-71912-19-1.