''Corythucha aesculi'' is a species of lace bug

Tingidae The Tingidae are a family of very small () insects in the order Hemiptera that are commonly referred to as lace bugs. This group is distributed worldwide with about 2,000 described species. They are called lace bugs because the pronotum and f ...

native to North America. ''C. aesculis host plant is the

yellow buckeye ''Aesculus flava'', the yellow buckeye, common buckeye, or sweet buckeye, is a species of deciduous tree. It is native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States. It grows in mesophytic forest or floodplains, genera ...

, (''Aesculus octandra'') Marsh and the insect can attain very high densities. ''C. aesculi'' is preyed upon by a wide variety of other insects, of which

ladybug Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...

s seem to be the most important.

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Tingidae Hemiptera of North America {{heteroptera-stub