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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Miroidea
  7. Plant Bugs

family

Plant Bugs

Miridae

Includes
446 native 19 introduced 32 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Mirinae 197 native
  • Phylinae 96 native
  • Orthotylinae 94 native
  • Bryocorinae 26 native
  • Deraeocorinae 24 native
  • Jumping Tree Bugs 5 native
  • Cylapinae 4 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native plant bugs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • North American Tarnished Plant Bug Lygus lineolaris 23,648 observations
  • Four-lined Plant Bug Poecilocapsus lineatus 14,742 observations
  • Clouded Plant Bug Neurocolpus nubilus 8,617 observations
  • Obscure Plant Bug Plagiognathus obscurus 3,991 observations
  • Wild Onion Mirid Metriorrhynchomiris dislocatus 3,266 observations
  • Common Green Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus 2,966 observations
  • Prepops insitivus 1,468 observations
  • Lopidea instabilis 690 observations
  • Western Tarnished Plant Bug Lygus hesperus 212 observations
  • Plagiognathus politus 179 observations
  • Pale Legume Bug Lygus elisus 155 observations
  • Transparent Winged Plant Bug Hyalopeplus pellucidus 55 observations
  • Myiomma cixiiforme 55 observations
  • Black Grass Bug Labops hesperius 31 observations
  • Nesiomiris hawaiiensis 9 observations
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