Apolygus lucorum Lat. “Apolygus lucorum“
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.
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.
Ancestry Graph
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Further Information
„Apolygus lucorum“ on wikipedia.org
„Apolygus lucorum“ on iNaturalist.org
Copyright
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Apolygus lucorum the free encyclopedia Wikipedia which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). On Wikipedia a list of authors is available.
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