Plesiodema pinetella | |
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Plesiodema pinetella depicted in Edward Saunders Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands (figure 3) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Miridae |
Genus: | Plesiodema |
Species: | P. pinetella |
Binomial name | |
Plesiodema pinetella (Zetterstedt, 1828) | |
Plesiodema pinetella is a true bug. The species is found across Palearctic from Europe and Western North Africa East to Siberia and Central Asia.
Plesiodema pinetella feeds on Pinus , Picea and Larix but in Central Europe especially on Pinus sylvestris , and Pinus nigra , and at higher altitudes in the Alps on Pinus mugo . The imagines occur from late May to early July, where their life expectancy is only about two weeks.