Species info
Classification > Superfamily Miroidea > Family Miridae > Subfamily Bryocorinae > Tribe Eccritotarsini > Genus Cyrtocapsus
Cyrtocapsus femoralis Reuter 1892
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
(USNM) - Photo by Eugenia Minghetti with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Jujuy
    • Misiones
    • Salta
Other distribution
Also known from Venezuela (Reuter 1892), Cuba (Maldonado 1986), French Guiana (Costa et al. 2008) and Brazil (Ferreira et al. 2006).
 
Synonyms
  • Cyrtocapsus elutipes (Bergroth, 1910)
Observations
According to Carpintero & Carvalho 1993 is deposited at Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Hernández & Henry 2010 have not seen specimens of this species identified by Maldonado (1986) from Cuba.
Host plants
Phaseolus vulgaris "common bean, green bean and French bean"
Links
References
  • REUTER, O. M. 1892. Voyage de M. F. Simon au Venezuela (décembre 1887-avril 1888) 20"MDSU"e mémoire. Hémiptères Hétéroptères. 1"MDSU"re partie. Capsides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 61: 391--402.
  • MALDONADO CAPRILES J. 1986. Concerning Cuban Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera). Caribbean Journal of Science 22(3-4): 125-136.
  • CARPINTERO, D. L. & CARVALHO, J. M. C. 1993. An annotated list of the Miridae of the Argentine Republic (Hemiptera). Revista brasileira de Biología 53(3): 397-420.
  • FERREIRA P.S.F., PIRES E.M., PAULA A.S. & COELHO L.A. 2006. Geographic distribution of Miridae in Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 1123: 1–19.
  • COSTA, L. A. A., CHEROT, F. & CARPINTERO, D. . 2008. Heteropteres Miridae de Guyane francaise: liste preliminaire, descriptions de taxa nouveaux et donnees additionnelles. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (n.s.) 44: 345-371.
  • HERNANDEZ, L. M. & HENRY, T. J. 2010. The plant bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), of Cuba. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 92: 212 pp.
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