Apolygus lucorum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta, and Portugal.[1] and much of the Mediterranean basin, then east across the Palearctic to China and Japan. [2]

Apolygus lucorum
Apolygus lucorum Elst (Gld), the Netherlands
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Apolygus
Species:
A. lucorum
Binomial name
Apolygus lucorum

Description

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Adults are 5–6 millimetres (0.20–0.24 in) long, and are yellowish-green in colour.[3]

Biology

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Apolygus lucorum feeds on a range of plants including tansy, nettle, Eupatorium, foxglove, scrub thistle (Cirsium), willowherb (Epilobium) and particularly mugwort piercing the plant tissues and feeding on the sap. Adults are found from July to October.

References

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  1. ^ "Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dur, 1843)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  2. ^ Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.
  3. ^ Description