New Distribution Records and Moss Asociations for the Lace Bugs Acalypta duryi Drake and A. lillianis Torre-Bueno (Hemiptera: Tingidae)
Wheeler AG and Reeves WK. 2004. New Distribution Records and Moss Asociations for the Lace Bugs Acalypta duryi Drake and A. lillianis Torre-Bueno (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 106(3):627-630
ABSTRACT: North American tingids of the mostly Holarctic, moss-inhabiting genus Acalypta are seldom collected, and records from specific mosses are scant. Our collections of a nymph and an adult of A. duryi Drake from Dicramon scoparium in North Carolina, numphs and an adult from Hylocomiastrum umbratum in Tennessee, and adults from Anomodon rostratus in Tennessee are the first specific mosses associated with this lace bug. Records of nymphs and adults of A. lillianis Torre-Bueno from Polytrichum commune and P. juniperinum in the southeastern United States corroborate the association with hair-cap mosses, Polytrichum spp. New state records for A. lillianis are Alabama and South Carolina.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Wheeler, A; Reeves, William
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- Acalypta, APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, biodiversity, bryophagy, bryophytes, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, GRSM, Homoptera, insect distribution, Insecta, mosses, SER, Southeast Region, Tingidae