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Orthotylus virescens

Synonyms: Capsus chloropterus (heterotypic); Litosoma virescens (homotypic); Melanotrichus virescens; Orthotylus chloropterus; Orthotylus griseinervis

Wikipedia Abstract

Orthotylus virescens is a species of dark green coloured bug from the Miridae family that can be found on Crete and in such countries as Andorra, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, all states of former Yugoslavia, and Western Europe (except Iceland) and was introduced to North America. The members of the species feed on broom.
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Prey / Diet

Arytaina genistae (Broom Psyllid)[1]
Arytainilla spartiophila[1]
Cytisus scoparius (Broomtops)[1]
Orthotylus concolor[1]

Predators

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Predators, parasitoids and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality and body sizes in a natural food web J. Memmott N.D. Martinez J.E. Cohen Journal of Animal Ecology Volume 69, Issue 1 January 2000 Pages 1-15
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0