Dictyla convergens

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Dictyla convergens
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Dictyla convergens

Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Net bugs (Tingidae)
Subfamily : Tinginae
Tribe : Tingini
Genre : Dictyla
Type : Dictyla convergens
Scientific name
Dictyla convergens
( Herrich-Schäffer , 1835)

Dictyla convergens is a bug from the family of net bugs (Tingidae).

features

The bugs are 2.9 to 3.6 millimeters long. They have a pale yellow-brown basic color. Parts of the hemielytres are colored darker. As with the genus Physatocheila , the lateral edges of the pronotum are clearly curved downwards and the pronotum has three keels, of which only the middle one reaches the head.

distribution and habitat

The species is distributed in Europe, with the exception of the north of the British Isles and Scandinavia, west to the Iberian Peninsula and in the east to European Russia and Ukraine. It is missing in the rest of the Mediterranean. In Central Europe the species is widespread, but rare. It is widespread in the UK but only occurs locally. Above all, damp to wet habitats are populated with vegetation on their food plants.

Way of life

The animals live on forget-me-nots ( Myosotis ), almost exclusively on swamp forget-me-nots ( Myosotis palustris ). The females lay their eggs in clutches of up to 18 on the stalks of the food plants and at the base of their buds in May. The latter usually die. The adults appear in August, the nymphs throughout the summer until September. It is still unknown whether one or two generations per year, as with other species in the genus, are formed.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wachmann: Wanzen , Vol. 1, p. 122
  2. ↑ a b Dictyla convergens. British Bugs, accessed June 22, 2014 .

literature

  • Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 1: Cimicomorpha: Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha (part 1) (=  The animal world of Germany and the adjacent sea parts according to their characteristics and according to their way of life . 77th part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-49-1 .

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