Catharanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. Like the genus Vinca, they are known commonly as periwinkles. There are eight known species. Seven are endemic to Madagascar, though one, C. roseus, is widely naturalized around the world. The eighth species, C. pusillus, is native to India and Sri Lanka. The name Catharanthus comes from the Greek for "pure flower".
The boxelder bug, also called box bug, maple bug or, inaccurately, box beetle, is a species of true bug native to eastern North America. The western boxelder bug Boisea rubrolineata is a relative of this species and is native to western North America. Boxelder bugs are found primarily on boxelder trees, as well as on maple and ash trees.
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs or roly polies. Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, butchy boys, and doodle bugs. Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, Armadillidium vulgare, was introduced to New England in the early 19th century and has become widespread throughout North America.
Anthocoridae is a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs. Worldwide there are 500-600 species.
Aethes smeathmanniana, or Smeathmann's aethes moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781. It is found in most of Europe, Asia Minor and in North America, where it has been recorded from New Jersey and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Brachycentridae is a family of humpless casemaker caddisflies in the order Trichoptera. It is found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Georg Ulmer first described it in Germany in 1903 as a subfamily of Sericostomatidae. The type genus for Brachycentridae is Brachycentrus J. Curtis, 1834.
Polymerus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are at least 100 described species in Polymerus.
Amblytylus nasutus is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe, Northern Asia, and North America.
Halticini is a tribe of plant bugs in the family Miridae.
Phyllaphis fagi, the woolly beech aphid, is a species of aphid in the family Aphididae.
Orthocephalus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are more than 20 described species in Orthocephalus.
Compsidolon salicellum is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe across the Palearctic to Siberia and Korea. It is also found in North America as an Adventive species.
Atractotomus mali is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia and North America.
Leptopterna ferrugata is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe to the east to Siberia and in the south to the northern Mediterranean basin and to Asia Minor. It is an adventive species in North America.
Chlamydatus pulicarius is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia and North America.
Blepharidopterus angulatus, the black-kneed capsid, is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in North Africa, Europe East across the Palearctic to Central Asia and in North America.
Megalocoleus molliculus is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe and east through the Palearctic to Siberia. It also occurs in North America.
Atractotomus magnicornis is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe and North America.
Heterogaster urticae, common name nettle ground bug, is a species of true bug in the family Heterogastridae.
Orthocephalus saltator is a Palearctic species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in Europe as far as the Caspian Sea and Siberia and to the south North Africa. O. saltator feeds on Asteraceae especially Hieracium pilosella and Poaceae
