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Orthops kalmii

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Wikipedia Abstract

Orthops kalmii is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae, that can be found everywhere in Europe but is absent on such islands as Azores, the Canary Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Malta. It is 4.5 millimetres (0.18 in) long.
View Wikipedia Record: Orthops kalmii

Prey / Diet

Galium album (white bedstraw)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lygocoris pabulinus (Common Green Capsid)1
Polymerus unifasciatus1
Thrips atratus1
Thrips tabaci (Onion thrip)1

Predators

Promachus canus[2]

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Pimpinella major (hollowstem burnet saxifrage)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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