Apolygus lucorum

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Apolygus lucorum
Apolygus lucorum Elst (Gld), the Netherlands
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Genus:	Apolygus
Species:	A. lucorum
Binomial name
Apolygus lucorum Meyer-Dür, 1843

Apolygus lucorum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta, and Portugal. and much of the Mediterranean basin, then east across the Palearctic to China and Japan.

Description

Adults are 5–6 millimetres (0.20–0.24 in) long, and are yellowish-green in colour.

Biology

Apolygus lucorum feeds on a range of plants including tansy, nettle, Eupatorium, foxglove, scrub thistle (Cirsium), willowherb (Epilobium) and particularly mugwort piercing the plant tissues and feeding on the sap. Adults are found from July to October.

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