''Neides tipularius'' is a
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
stilt bug
Berytidae is a family of the order Hemiptera ("true bugs"), commonly called stilt bugs or thread bugs. Most berytids are brown to yellow, with species that are plant sap feeders, a few being predaceous. About 200 species are known from all around ...
. It occurs from the Northern
Mediterranean to
Scandinavia and the
British Isles. Further east it is found in
Asia minor and the
Caucasus to
Central Asia. In Germany and the Alps it is widespread and not uncommon. In Britain it is locally common in large parts of the South. In Ireland it is rare.
Adults are 9.5 to 11.5 mm long. They are drab grey-brown or straw coloured and easily recognizable by their slender elongate bodies and very long legs. The similar representatives of the genus of ''
Berytinus
''Berytinus'' is a genus of stilt bugs in the family Berytidae. There are about 12 described species in ''Berytinus''.
Species
These 12 species belong to the genus ''Berytinus'':
* ''Berytinus clavipes'' Fabricius, 1775
* ''Berytinus consimili ...
'' are smaller and have a much shorter second antennal segment. The hemielytra are always fully developed. Nymphs are colored green.
''Neides tipularius'' feeds on various herbaceous plants such as ''
Cerastium'', ''
Arenaria'', ''
Silene'', various
Caryophyllaceae, ''
Erodium'',
Geraniaceae and others. The imagines also feed on grasses (
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
such as ''
Corynephorus'' and ''
Agrostis
''Agrostis'' (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass.
Species
* '' Agrostis aequivalvi'' ...
''. They are associated with dry, sandy soils and coastal dunes.
References
*Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: ''Wanzen''. Band 3: Pentatomomorpha I: ''Aradoidea (Rindenwanzen), Lygaeoidea (Bodenwanzen u. a.), Pyrrhocoroidea (Feuerwanzen) und Coreoidea (Randwanzen u. a.)''. (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 78. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2007, .
External links
British Bugs
Berytidae
Hemiptera of Europe
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