Hart's Hyaline Plant Bug

Hyaliodes harti

Classification

Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Cimicomorpha
Superfamily: Miroidea
Family: Miridae
Subfamily: Deraeocorinae
Tribe: Hyaliodini
Genus: Hyaliodes
Species: harti

Pronunciation

How to pronounce Hyaliodes harti: //haɪəˈlaɪ.oʊˌdiːz ˈhɑːrti//

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Images

Hyaliodes harti P1650589a by
xpda. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Day 255 - Plant Bug - Hyaliodes harti, Woodbridge, Virginia by Judy Gallagher. Used under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Hyaliodes harti P1660449a by
xpda. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Hyaliodes harti P1660451a by
xpda. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Hyaline Plant Bug - Flickr - treegrow (1) by Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. Used under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Hyaline Plant Bug - Flickr - treegrow by Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. Used under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Summary

Hyaliodes harti (Hart's Hyaline Plant Bug) is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae, characterized by its elongate glassy appearance and found on various fruit-bearing trees.

Physical Characteristics

Adults are elongate, hyaline or glassy in appearance, with long slender legs and large reddish eyes. Collar and calli black. Scutellum black at base. Apical margin of corium red. Median pronotal line always light. Antennae, first segment, bright red.

Identification Tips

Distinguished from vitripennis by the longer first antennal segment.

Habitat

Collected on a vast variety of trees including apple, pear, peach, raspberry, plum, and grape.

Distribution

Found in North America. Strays to British Columbia (BC) and can be found in the regions from Oklahoma (OK) to North Carolina (NC) to Maine (ME).

Diet

Predaceous on mites, aphids, psyllids, and other small arthropods.

Ecosystem Role

Predator in the ecosystem, feeding on other small arthropods.