Oncotylus viridiflavus

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Oncotylus viridiflavus
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Oncotylus viridiflavus

Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Phylinae
Tribe : Phylini
Genre : Oncotylus
Type : Oncotylus viridiflavus
Scientific name
Oncotylus viridiflavus
( Goeze , 1778)

Oncotylus viridiflavus is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).

features

The bugs are 6.4 to 7.8 millimeters long. They have a bluish-green basic color and a black pattern on the head and pronotum and are therefore not to be confused.

Occurrence and habitat

The kind is distributed in Europe, excluding the north, east to Central Asia and in the northwest of China. In Western Europe it occurs from southern England via the Netherlands and France to the Iberian Peninsula. They are common in places, but become rarer to the east. In Germany, the species occurs mainly in the southwest, around Lake Constance and in Rhineland-Palatinate to the Mainz Basin. There is only historical evidence from East Germany. The species is rare in Austria and has only been found in Lower Austria and Vorarlberg.

Way of life

The bugs live on knapweed ( Centaurea ), such as B. Black knapweed ( Centaurea nigra ) and often sit on the flowers. The females lay their eggs in the stems of the host plants by first drilling a hole with their proboscis. The adult bugs occur from June to September.

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. 243 .
  2. ↑ Oncotylus viridiflavus. 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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