Plesiodema pinetella

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Plesiodema pinetella
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Plesiodema pinetella depicted in Edward Saunders Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands (figure 3)
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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.

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