Gastrodes grossipes
Appearance
Gastrodes grossipes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Rhyparochromidae |
Genus: | Gastrodes |
Species: | G. grossipes
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Binomial name | |
Gastrodes grossipes (De Geer, 1773)
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Gastrodes grossipes, the pine cone bug, is a true bug found in most of Europe except in the far north.[1] To the east, the distribution area extends over Asia minor and the Caucasus, and then across the Palearctic to Siberia. The food plant is Scots pine.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Feci, E.; Battisti, A.; Capretti, P.; Tegli, S. (December 2003). "An association between the fungus Sphaeropsis sapinea and the cone bug Gastrodes grossipes in cones of Pinus nigra in Italy". Forest Pathology. 32 (4–5): 241–247. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0329.2002.00286.x. ISSN 1437-4781.
- ^ "Gastrodes grossipes". CABI Compendium. 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Gastrodes grossipes at Wikimedia Commons
- British Bugs