Apolygus lucorum
Species of true bug
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (July 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
- View a machine-translated version of the German article.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Apolygus lucorum]]; see its history for attribution.
- You may also add the template
{{Translated|de|Apolygus lucorum}}
to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Apolygus lucorum | |
---|---|
Apolygus lucorum Elst (Gld), the Netherlands | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Miridae |
Genus: | Apolygus |
Species: | A. lucorum |
Binomial name | |
Apolygus lucorum Meyer-Dür, 1843 |
Apolygus lucorum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta, and Portugal.[1] and much of the Mediterranean basin, then east across the Palearctic to China and Japan. [2]
Description
Adults are 5–6 millimetres (0.20–0.24 in) long, and are yellowish-green in colour.[3]
Biology
Apolygus lucorum feeds on a range of plants including tansy, nettle, Eupatorium, foxglove, scrub thistle (Cirsium), willowherb (Epilobium) and particularly mugwort piercing the plant tissues and feeding on the sap. Adults are found from July to October.
References
- ^ "Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dur, 1843)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.
- ^ Description