British Insects: the Families of Hemiptera
| British Insects: the Families of Hemiptera | |
Including Capsidae.
Mirid Bugs, Capsid Bugs, Leaf Bugs.
Salient features of adults. Terrestrial.
Phytophagous (mostly), or predacious (a few), or phytophagous and blood-suckers (rarely, then not obligate blood-suckers). Small to large; 2–11 mm long; fliers; relatively stout bodied to with narrow-elongate bodies; conspicuously stilt-legged. Head non-linear. Rostrum clearly separated ventrally from the prosternum by a sclerotized gula; 4 segmented. Antennae longer than the head, readily visible from above; 4 segmented (?); non-aristate. Ocelli absent. Scutellum relatively small. Fore-wings well developed; in the resting insect lying more or less flat over the abdomen; differentiated into a basally thickened and a distally membranous region; with a costal fracture and cuneus; with a clavus. Trochanters apparently two-segmented. Tarsi 3 segmented. Pulvilli absent (?). The abdomen without ventral silvery pubescence.
Comments. Delicate, soft-bodied bugs; the last two antennal segments often thinner and more flexible than the first two. Both adults and nymphs with the unique, apparently 2-segmented trochanter.
Taxonomy. Suborder Heteroptera; Cimicoidea.
British representation. Genera 86; 208 species.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the families of Hemiptera. Version: 9th April 2007. http://delta-intkey.com’.