Orthotylus flavosparsus

Orthotylus flavosparsus

Orthotylus flavosparsus is a species of plant-eating bug in the Miridae family, which is found everywhere in Europe except for Albania and Iceland. It was introduced to North America. The green membrane cells and the patches of silvery hairs on the upperside are distinctive.
Orthotylus flavosparsus Geotagged,Miridae,Orthotylini,Orthotylus flavosparsus,Summer,United States,bug,hemiptera,insect

Appearance

The adult Orthotylus flavosparsus is normally about 4 millimetres in length, and green in colour.
Orthotylus flavosparsus Habitat: Attracted to a moth light at night in a rural area Geotagged,Miridae,Orthotylus,Orthotylus flavosparsus,Summer,United States,hemiptera

Naming

Orthotylus flavosparsus (Sahlberg,1841)
Melanotrichus falvosparsus
Orthotylus parallelus Lindberg, 1927
Orthotylus viridipunctatus Reuter, 1899
Orthotylus nigropilosus Lindberg, 1934
Orthotylus viridipennis Dahlbom, 1851
Orthotylus guttula Matsumura, 1917
Orthotylus bicolor Carvalho & Carpintero, 1986
Orthotylus pulchellus Reuter, 1874
Orthotylus deflavus Stichel, 1957
Phytocoris viridipennis Dahlbom, 1851

Distribution

Native to, and widespread in the Palaearctic, adventive in North America (Wisconsin to West Virginia to Geoergia and Arkansas. Also Newfoundland in Canada).

Habitat

The species can be found on oraches and chenopods, which is their main food.

Food

Chenopods such as fat-hen (Chenopodium album) and oraches (Atriplex spp.).

References:

Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.

http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/orthotylus_flavosparsus.html
https://bugguide.net/node/view/244927
https://research.amnh.org/pbi/catalog/references.php?id=1374
Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderHemiptera
FamilyMiridae
GenusOrthotylus
SpeciesO. flavosparsus
Photographed in
United States of America