Yamada, Kazutaka;Yasunaga, Tomohide;Artchawakom, Taksin
Orius
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Species
Insidious flower bug
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHemiptera
- FamilyAnthocoridae
Observations3,452
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,606
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Anthocoridae
- Collections
- MHNCA
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
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left|thumb|130px|Bites of Orius sp. after one day
The genus Orius (commonly called minute pirate bug) consists of omnivorous bugs in the family Anthocoridae (pirate bugs). Adults are 2–5 mm long and feed mostly on smaller insects, larva and eggs, such as spider mites, thrips, jumping plant lice, and white fly, but will also feed on pollen and vascular sap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.