Pinalitus viscicola

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Pinalitus viscicola
Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Mirinae
Tribe : Mirini
Genre : Pinalitus
Type : Pinalitus viscicola
Scientific name
Pinalitus viscicola
( Puton , 1888)

Pinalitus viscicola is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).

features

The bugs are 3.4 to 4.5 millimeters long. They are colored relatively brightly. Your pronotum is green. The hemielytres are predominantly dark and have a large, semicircular pale area in the middle. The cuneus is green and has a red tip. The wing veins are often red.

Occurrence and habitat

The species is distributed in Central Europe north to the limit of the distribution of its host plant, the white berry mistletoe ( Viscum album ), which runs through northern Germany. The species is absent in the Mediterranean area and occurs in the east to the Caucasus region. It is presumably widespread in Germany and Austria, but because of its way of life it is difficult to find and therefore hardly proven. Wherever it appears, it does so in large numbers.

White berry mistletoe ( Viscum album ) is mainly colonized on deciduous trees, but also Loranthus (in Europe oak mistletoe ( Loranthus europaeus )). They evidently show no preference for certain host tree species. Occasionally, fallen bugs can be found on herbaceous plants or trees without mistletoe.

Way of life

Hibernation takes place as an egg, and occasionally also imagines hibernate. These of the new generation otherwise occur in June, in the north of the distribution area from July to August and September. A second generation per year is conceivable in southern Germany.

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. 116 ff .
  2. ↑ Pinalitus viscicola. British Bugs, accessed July 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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