Notostira erratica
Notostira erratica, Latvia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Notostira
Species:
N. erratica
Binomial name
Notostira erratica

Notostira erratica is a species of bugs from a Miridae family, subfamily Mirinae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Azores, Benelux, Faroe Islands, Madeira, Malta, and African and Asia ones such as Canary Islands and Cyprus.[1][2]

Biology

Occurs on dry grass-dominated areas where it lives on various grasses, notably Calamagrostis and Alopecurus.

As in N. elongata males winter in the egg stage, and the females wintering in the imago.

References

  1. โ†‘ "Notostira erratica (Linnaeus, 1758)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  2. โ†‘ Kerzhner I. M.; Josifov M. (1999). "Family Miridae". In Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3, Cimicomorpha II. Amsterdam: Netherlands Entomological Society. pp. 1โ€“577, page 190. ISBN 978-90-71912-19-1.


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