Calocoris roseomaculatus
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Calocoris roseomaculatus is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).
features
The bugs are 6.5 to 8.0 millimeters long. They are easy to recognize by their characteristic pink spots on the hemielytras . Your scutellum is divided by a dark line. The head, pronotum, and legs can also be tinted pink. The second part of the antennae is shorter than the third and fourth combined. The species is somewhat similar to Closterotomus norwegicus . Calocoris roseomaculatus is very variable, so that differently colored animals were sometimes described as separate species in the past. Today there are several subspecies.
Occurrence and habitat
The species is common in Europe and Asia. In Central Europe only the subspecies Calocoris roseomaculatus roseomaculatus occurs, which occurs in almost all of Europe and the western Mediterranean as well as east to Russia and the Ukraine. The species is widespread in Germany and usually common, only in the North German lowlands it is not so common. It does not occur frequently in Austria either.
A great many different habitats are settled, from temperature-favored limestone and sand habitats to wetlands. You can find them in open as well as shady places from the lowlands to montane locations. However, the species prefers to live in open, dry and warm places at higher altitudes.
Way of life
The bugs are apparently polyphag and suck on different plant families, but they prefer daisy family (Asteraceae). They are found mainly on chrysanthemums ( Chrysanthemum ), yarrow ( Achillea ), camomiles ( Matricaria ), wild flowers ( Tanacetum ), water dost ( Eupatorium ), Artemisia , knapweed ( Centaurea ) and hawkweeds ( Hieracium ), but also on legumes (Fabaceae) ). The anthers, ovaries and immature seeds of the host plants are vacuumed.
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (lichen bugs), Miridae (soft bugs) (= The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life . 75th part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-57-2 , p. 62 f .
- ↑ Calocoris roseomaculatus. British Bugs, accessed January 2, 2015 .
literature
- Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (lichen bugs), Miridae (soft bugs) (= The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life . 75th part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-57-2 .
Web links
- Calocoris roseomaculatus at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved January 2, 2015
- www.britishbugs.org.uk - photos, description