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Hemerobius
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Hemerobius humulinus Hemerobius is a genus of lacewings in the family Hemerobiidae. It is found throughout Europe and North America. Like most lacewings, both the larvae and adults are predatory, primarily eating acarines, scale insects, psyllids, aphids, thrips, and the eggs of lepidopterans and whiteflies.
Species
Summer Fishfly
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderNeuroptera
- FamilyHemerobiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,430
- Family
- Hemerobiidae
- Collections
- UAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ABS, UCM, MNA, UNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Canada
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- taxon name
- Hemerobius
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- Category:Hemerobius
- Commons category
- Hemerobius
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- taxon author citation
- Linnaeus, 1758
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thumb|upright|Hemerobius humulinus Hemerobius is a genus of lacewings in the family Hemerobiidae. It is found throughout Europe and North America. Like most lacewings, both the larvae and adults are predatory, primarily eating acarines, scale insects, psyllids, aphids, thrips, and the eggs of lepidopterans and whiteflies. Names brought to synonymy: Hemerobius elegans Stephens, 1836 (currently Sympherobius elegans) Hemerobius elegans Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (currently Vieira elegans)
==See also== List of Hemerobius species
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