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    Species Accepted

    Lygus hesperus Knight, 1917

    Western Tarnished Plant Bug

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Vernacular names

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      3 results
      Western Tarnished Plant Bug English
      punaise occidentale French
      western plant bug English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      24 results
      Knight, H. H. A revision of the genus Lygus as it occurs on America North of Mexico, with biological data on the species from New York. Cornell Univiversity Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 391: 555--645, 1 pl. (1917). Published in
      Bosque-Perez, N. A., T. F. Leigh and K. W. Foster. Oviposition, survival, growth and observed population increase of Lygus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) on selected bean cultivars. Journal of Economic Entomology 76: 997--1001. (1983).
      Champlain, R. A. and G. D. Butler, Jr. Temperature effects on development of the eggs and nymphal stages of Lygus hesperus (Hemiptera: Miridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 519. (1967).
      Fye, R. E. Weed hosts of the Lygus (Heteroptera: Miridae) bug complex in central Washington (U.S.A.). Journal of Economic Entomology 75(4): 724--727. (1982).
      Sevacherian, V. Activity and probing behavior of Lygus hesperus in the laboratory. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 68: 557--558. (1974).
      Auclair, J. L. and J. R. Raulston. Feeding of Lygus hesperus (Hemiptera: Miridae) on a chemically defined diet. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59: 1016--1017. (1966).
      Carvalho, J. C. M. and C. R. S. Afonso. Mirideos neotropicais, CCVIII: Sôbre uma coleçao enviada para estudo pela Academia de Ciencias da California (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 37: 7--16. (1977).
      Scott, D. R. An annotated listing of host plants of Lygus"MDBR" hesperus Knight. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 23: 19--22. (1977).
      Gutierrez, A. P., Y. Wang and U. Regev. An optimization model for Lygus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) damage in cotton: The economic threshold revisited. Canadian Entomologist 111: 41--54. (1979).
      Strong, F. E. and E. S. Kruitwagen. Polygalacturonase in the salivary appparatus of Lygus hesperus (Hemiptera). Journal of Insect Physiology 14: 1113--1119. (1968).

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