FAMILY MIRIDAE (Plant Bugs)

Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Miridae-Megalopsallus rubropictipes-Plant Bugs FEMALE (D)

Megalopsallus rubropictipes

Willcox Playa
Cochise County, Arizona
Coordinates: 32.143598, -109.904473
Elevation: 4,133
November 6, 2020
Size: 3.5 mm to tip of wings
Collected sweeping Desert Seepweed, Suaeda suffrutescens
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Jason Botz who said: “I dissected out and cleared the genitalia from two males and a comparison with the drawings in Schuh’s revision confirmed that it’s Megalopsallus rubropictipes. It’s interesting because the description of the species does not cover this kind of brownish color morph.”

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