Tuponia mixticolor

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Tuponia mixticolor
Systematics
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Phylinae
Tribe : Phylini
Genre : Tuponia
Type : Tuponia mixticolor
Scientific name
Tuponia mixticolor
( A. Costa , 1862)

Tuponia mixticolor is a species of bug from the family of soft bugs (Miridae).

features

The bugs become 2.5 to 3.6 millimeters long. The species of the genus Tuponia have pale splints ( tibiae ) that carry long, dark spurs that arise from small black dots. Tuponia mixticolor has reddish-brown spotted hemielytres and a scutellum , the front part of which is orange-brown in color.

Occurrence and habitat

The species occurs almost in the entire Mediterranean area, including North Africa. Evidence from Slovenia has also been available since 2006. From Germany the species, as well as Tuponia brevirostris, has been proven from Rhineland-Palatinate since 2007, where it sometimes occurs together with this species. The species was first detected in England in 1979 and has now been detected on the south coast, as well as the coast of East Anglia and now also in London on tamarisks ( Tamarix ).

Way of life

The bugs are believed to occur in two generations from June to September.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 5: supplement volume. Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha. (=  The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life . 82nd part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2012, ISBN 978-3-937783-58-1 , p. 36 .
  2. ↑ a b c Tuponia mixticolor. British Bugs, accessed December 26, 2014 .

literature

  • Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 5: supplement volume. Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha. (=  The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life . 82nd part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2012, ISBN 978-3-937783-58-1 .

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