Megaloceroea recticornis

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Megaloceroea recticornis
Megaloceroea recticornis

Megaloceroea recticornis

Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Mirinae
Tribe : Stenodemini
Genre : Megaloceroea
Type : Megaloceroea recticornis
Scientific name
Megaloceroea recticornis
( Geoffroy , 1785)
nymph

Megaloceroea recticornis is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).

features

The bugs are 7.9 to 10.2 millimeters long. They have an elongated, straw-yellow to green body, longitudinal pits between the compound eyes and extremely long antennae , in which the first segment alone is almost as long as the head and the pronotum combined. The very long, slender buttocks are also characteristic of the species. The tarsi are all dark. Unlike Notostira elongata , the tibia and the first antennae are provided with short, prickly hairs. The nymphs are green and have two brown bandages on their thorax .

Occurrence and habitat

The species is distributed in Europe with the exception of large parts of Scandinavia, south to North Africa and east to Western Siberia and across Asia Minor to the Caspian region and Iran. It was introduced by humans in North America, Japan and New Zealand. In Germany and Austria, the species is widespread and usually common, it is particularly common south of the low mountain range and in the east. Slightly moist to dry, nutrient-rich, uncut grass habitats are populated, which can be both open and shaded, including, for example, ruderal areas, paths and forest edges, forest meadows, riparian strips, light forests and the like.

Way of life

The bugs live particularly on tall grasses such as foxtail grasses ( Alopecurus ), Arrhenatherum , Zwenken ( Brachypodium ), fescue ( Festuca ), riding grass ( Calamagrostis ) or barley ( Hordeum ). Both the nymphs and the adult bugs feed primarily on the leaves of the grass. The overwintering takes place as an egg. The nymphs hatch from May, in June and rarely even in May the adult bugs appear. These pierce their eggs into the stems of the host plants in July and August. From the beginning of September the adults begin to die.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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. 134 .
  2. ↑ Megaloceroea recticornis. British Bugs, accessed January 4, 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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