Capsus ater

Capsus ater
	An adult Capsus ater
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Miridae
Genus:	Capsus
Species:	C. ater
Binomial name
	Capsus ater; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Capsus flavicollis (Fabricius, 1775); Capsus nigricornis Hahn, 1826; Capsus nigripes (Strobl, 1900); Capsus rutilus Stichel, 1930; Capsus semiflavus (Linnaeus, 1767); Capsus sordens (Gmelin, 1790); Capsus tyrannus (Fabricius, 1781); Cimex ater Linnaeus, 1758

Oviposition

Capsus ater is a species of bug in the Miridae family that likely originated in North America, but that is now found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Siberia and in North America.^[1]^[2]^[3] ^[4]

Capsus ater is found in dry to moderately moist, open to partially shaded habitats In the Alps it rises to over 2000 meters above sea level. The bugs live on different grasses (Poaceae) and do not seem to have any particular preference for certain species or genera.^[5]

References

^ Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). "Family Miridae". Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. New York: E. J. Brill. pp. 300–301. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.
^ Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). [1]
^ "Capsus ater". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
^ Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.
^ Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (Flechtenwanzen), Miridae (Weichwanzen) (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 75. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-57-2.

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[1] Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). "Family Miridae". Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. New York: E. J. Brill. pp. 300–301. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.

[2] Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). [1]

[3] "Capsus ater". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 January 2014.

[4] Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.

[5] Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (Flechtenwanzen), Miridae (Weichwanzen) (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 75. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-57-2.

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Capsus ater

An adult Capsus ater
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Miridae
Genus:	Capsus
Species:	C. ater
Binomial name
*Capsus ater* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Capsus flavicollis (Fabricius, 1775) Capsus nigricornis Hahn, 1826 Capsus nigripes (Strobl, 1900) Capsus rutilus Stichel, 1930 Capsus semiflavus (Linnaeus, 1767) Capsus sordens (Gmelin, 1790) Capsus tyrannus (Fabricius, 1781) Cimex ater Linnaeus, 1758

Capsus ater

References

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