FAMILY MIRIDAE (Plant Bugs)

Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Miridae-Taedia albifacies-Plant Bugs FEMALE (C)

Taedia albifacies

Ruby Road
Santa Cruz County, Arizona
October 21, 2022
Size: 6.5 mm
Caught by sweeping vegetation
Coordinates: 31.388643, -111.118012
Elevation: 4,109 ft
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Jason T. Botz who said: “Keyed out specimen using Knight’s 1930 revision. It could be mistaken for a large, pale T. marmorata, but this has black setae on the pronotum and hemelytra, whereas T. marmorata has pale dorsal setae.”

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