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21 unusual facts about hemiptera


Aster yellows

The Aster yellows disease is caused by the aster yellows phytoplasma (AYP) which is a phloem-limited, bacterium-like organism and is vectored by the aster leafhopper, Macrosteles quadrilineatus, a phloem-feeding insect of the order Hemiptera.

Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot

They become life-long friends, and Audinet-Serville advised Amyot to specialize in the Hemiptera, which at the time was being ignored by serious entomologists.

Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (23 September 1799 Vendreeuv - 13 October 1866 Paris) was a French lawyer and entomologist especially interested in the Hemiptera.

Ernst Friedrich Germar

As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera.

Étienne Mulsant

With Jean Baptist Édouard Verreaux (1810–1868), he wrote Histoire naturelle des punaises de France, (Natural History of the bugs of France) between 1865 to 1879.

Francis Buchanan White

In 1883,Buchanan White redescribed the known species of the Hemiptera genus Halobates and he illustrated 11 species in colour, with numerous drawings in black and white of structural details.This was one of the parts of the Challenger Report.

Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung

In the field of entomology, he was instrumental in the founding of the journal, Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, in which he published papers on Hemiptera.

Géza Horváth

Géza Horváth (23 November 1847, Csécs – 8 September 1937, Budapest) was a Hungarian doctor and entomologist internationally recognized for his work on bugs (Homoptera and Hemiptera).

Gustav Breddin

Gustav Breddin (25 February 1864, Magdeburg - 22 December 1909, Oschersleben) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera.

Gustav Flor

He is best known for his studies of Hemiptera, especially the two-volume work Die Rhynchoten Livlands in systematischer Folge beschrieben ("The Hemiptera of Livonia, Described In Systematic Order").

Jitterbug

The "jitterbug" was a bug sent by the Wicked Witch of the West to waylay the heroes by forcing them to do a jitterbug-style dance.

Lacronia

This genus was at first called Luederwaldtia Mello-Leitão, 1923, but the name was already preoccupied, being a junior homonym of Luederwaldtia Schmidt, 1922 (Hemiptera).

Long-tailed Widowbird

They also feed upon both insects, including species of beetles (Coleoptera), cicadas and aphids (Hemiptera), and spiders.

Marsh Tapaculo

It forages at or near ground-level and feeds on small arthropods, mainly insects such as bugs and beetles.

Metarhizium flavoviride

Metarhizium flavoviride is the name given to a group of fungal isolates that are known to be virulent against Hemiptera and some Coleoptera.

Paleoleishmania

The genus Phytomonas is excluded due to it being exclusively found in Hemipterans.

Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais

In 1866, he published his first mémoire which was on the anatomy of Hemiptera.

Pilophorus

Note that Pilophorus is a homonym for another taxonomic genus: Pilophorus Hahn, 1826 is namely a genus of the family Miridae in the order of the Hemiptera.

Scratchbury Camp

Other insect groups on the site are less well surveyed, but several rare species have been noted, including for six species of weevil Curculionoidea, eight species of plant bugs, Hemiptera and Homoptera; and two species of Chrysomelid beetle, Apthona herbigrada and Mantura matthewsii, both of which feed on the rock rose Helianthemum.

Slovak Paradise National Park

The National Park contains about 4,000 species of invertebrates, which include more than 2,100 species of butterflies, 400 species of bugs and 150 species of molluscs.

Tumbes Swallow

All Tachycineta swallows are known to be exclusive insectivores; only identified prey include Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Aranae.


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Carl Stål

Although Stål, who was regarded as the world's foremost worker on Hemiptera, published most on this order, he also worked on Orthoptera and to a lesser extent on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.

Corixa

The name Corixa comes from the true bug (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) genus Corixa (family Corixidae, Water boatman), described by Geoffroy, in 1762.

Ditropis

There is also a hemipteran genus Ditropis, homonym of Stiroma Fieber 1866 , belonging to the family Delphacidae.

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Heteroptera

"Waterbugs" is a common name for a number of aquatic insects, most of which are classified in the infraorders Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha of the order Hemiptera.

Stenodema vicinum

Stenodema vicinum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family that feeds on the grass blades of Muhlenbergia schreberi (nimblewill).