Cyrtorhinus caricis

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Cyrtorhinus caricis
Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Orthotylinae
Tribe : Orthotylini
Genre : Cyrtorhinus
Type : Cyrtorhinus caricis
Scientific name
Cyrtorhinus caricis
( Fall , 1807)

Cyrtorhinus caricis is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).

features

The bugs are 3.4 to 4.0 millimeters long. They have greenish colored hemielytres with a dark stripe down the middle that runs across the clavus and the inner part of the corium. The feelers are completely black. The adult bugs are always fully winged (macropter).

Occurrence and habitat

The species is distributed holarctic from Europe without the south to Siberia, China, Korea and Japan as well as in Canada. In Germany and Austria it is only proven locally and is rare, but in some places it is frequent. It is probably often overlooked due to its hidden way of life, but is probably missing in the northwestern lowlands of Germany.

Humid to wet, also flooded sour grass and rush stands are settled in moors, silted areas on bodies of water, wet meadows and the like. They are also found in brackish water and on the coast of the sea.

Way of life

The bugs live mostly on or near the ground and are therefore rarely nested. They only climb up the plants in the evening and when there is no wind. They are believed to have a zoophytophagous to predominantly predatory diet. They don't seem to specialize in any particular host plant. There is evidence of ledges ( Scirpus ), pond rushes ( Schoenoplectus ), sedges ( Carex ), rushes ( Juncus ) and cattails ( Typha ). But they also suckle on the larvae and eggs of cicadas of the Delphacidae family . The adult bugs can fly, but rarely do so.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 165 ff .
  2. ↑ Cyrtorhinus caricis. British Bugs, accessed January 3, 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 .

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