Hemiptera of Cyprus : Miridae Family

Adelphocoris bimaculicollis Miridae
Alloeotomus cyprius Miridae
Amblytylus concolor Miridae
Auchenocrepis alboscutellata Miridae
Blepharidopterus angulatus Miridae
Blepharidopterus dubius Miridae
Brachynotocoris cyprius Miridae
Calocoris nemoralis Miridae
Camptotylus reuteri Miridae
Campylomma lindbergi Miridae
Campylomma verbasci Miridae
Campylomma viticis Miridae
Charagochilus gyllenhalii Miridae
Closterotomus annulus Miridae
Closterotomus histrio Miridae
Closterotomus krueperi Miridae
Closterotomus migrans Miridae
Closterotomus norwegicus Miridae
Closterotomus trivialis Miridae
Compsidolon pterocephali Miridae
Conostethus venustus Miridae
Creontiades pallidus Miridae
Cyphodema instabilis Miridae
Deraeocoris lutescens Miridae
Deraeocoris martini Miridae
Deraeocoris punctulatus Miridae
Deraeocoris rutilus Miridae
Deraeocoris serenus Miridae
Dichrooscytus cyprius Miridae
Dichrooscytus inermis Miridae
Dichrooscytus juniperi Miridae
Dicyphus hyalinipennis Miridae
Dicyphus lindbergi Miridae
Dimorphocoris eckerleini Miridae
Dimorphocoris lateralis Miridae
Dimorphocoris tristis Miridae
Dionconotus neglectus Miridae
Eurystylus bellevoyei Miridae
Globiceps rubi Miridae
Globiceps sphaegiformis Miridae
Hallodapus concolor Miridae
Heterocapillus genistae Miridae
Heterocapillus niger Miridae
Heterocordylus tibialis Miridae
Hyoidellus verticatus Miridae
Isometopus nigritulus Miridae
Isometopus peregrinus Miridae
Lepidargyrus senguni Miridae
Lygus gemellatus Miridae
Lygus pratensis Miridae
Macrolophus costalis Miridae
Macrolophus melanotoma Miridae
Macrotylus atricapillus Miridae
Macrotylus bipunctatus Miridae
Macrotylus lindbergi Miridae
Macrotylus perdictus Miridae
Macrotylus scutellaris Miridae
Maurodactylus fulvus Miridae
Megacoelum angustum Miridae
Megacoelum infusum Miridae
Megacoelum myrti Miridae
Megalocoleus molliculus Miridae
Mimocoris coarctatus Miridae
Mimocoris rugicollis Miridae
Nanopsallus carduellus Miridae
Nesidiocoris tenuis Miridae
Orthocephalus fulvipes Miridae
Orthocephalus proserpinae Miridae
Orthopidea fusciceps Miridae
Orthopidea platani Miridae
Orthops kalmii Miridae
Orthotylus dimorphus Miridae
Orthotylus elongatus Miridae
Orthotylus flaviceps Miridae
Orthotylus flavosparsus Miridae
Orthotylus griseinervis Miridae
Orthotylus troodensis Miridae
Orthotylus virescens Miridae
Pachytomella passerinii Miridae
Pachytomella phoenicea Miridae
Pachyxyphus lineellus Miridae
Phytocoris abeillei Miridae
Phytocoris berberidis Miridae
Phytocoris cedri Miridae
Phytocoris cyprius Miridae
Phytocoris exoletus Miridae
Phytocoris flammula Miridae
Phytocoris hakoni Miridae
Phytocoris lindbergi Miridae
Phytocoris miridioides Miridae
Phytocoris pinihalepensis Miridae
Phytocoris scituloides Miridae
Phytocoris tridens Miridae
Pilophorus angustulus Miridae
Pinalitus conspurcatus Miridae
Plagiognathus bipunctatus Miridae
Plagiognathus tamaninii Miridae
Platycranus genistae Miridae
Pleuroxonotus longicornis Miridae
Psallus cyprius Miridae
Reuterista instabilis Miridae
Stenodema virens Miridae
Systellonotus pseudovelox Miridae
Systellonotus thymi Miridae
Taylorilygus apicalis Miridae
Thermocoris munieri Miridae
Tinicephalus picticornis Miridae
Tragiscocoris fieberi Miridae
Trigonotylus pulchellus Miridae
Tuponia bifasciata Miridae
Tuponia brevirostris Miridae
Tuponia dalmatina Miridae
Tuponia hippophaes Miridae
Tuponia macedonica Miridae
Tuponia mixticolor Miridae
Tuponia simplex Miridae
Tuponia spilana Miridae
Tytthus parviceps Miridae
Zanchius breviceps Miridae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Miridae are a large and diverse insect family at one time known by the taxonomic synonym Capsidae.[1] Species in the family may be referred to as capsid bugs or "mirid bugs". Common names include plant bugsleaf bugs, and grass bugs. It is the largest family of true bugs belonging to the suborder Heteroptera; it includes over 10,000 known species, and new ones are being described constantly. Most widely known mirids are species that are notorious agricultural pests that pierce plant tissues, feed on the sap, and sometimes transmit viral plant diseases. Some species however, are predatory.

Description

Miridae are small, terrestrial insects, usually oval-shaped or elongate and measuring less than 12 millimetres (0.5 in) in length. Many of them have a hunched look, because of the shape of the prothorax, which carries the head bent down. Some are brightly coloured and attractively patterned, others drab or dark, most being inconspicuous. Some genera are ant mimics at certain stages of life. Miridae do not have any ocelli. Their rostrum has four segments. One useful feature in identifying members of the family is the presence of a cuneus; it is the triangular tip of the corium, the firm, sclerotized part of the forewing, the hemelytron. The cuneus is visible in nearly all Miridae, and only in a few other Hemiptera, notably the family Anthocoridae, which are not much like the Miridae in other ways. The tarsi almost always have three segments.[2]