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Lygus flavoscutellatus

Humpback Bug

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Humpback Bug

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: RANGE n.Australia, Cooks

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native or Introduced - Recent + Naturalised; Land, horticultural

KEY FEATURES: Small, to 3.5mmBL. HEAD flat with large red-brown eyes, laterally placed; proboscis 50%BL; antennae 4-segments, ~100%BL. THORAX brown with broad black bar. WINGS brown to black. LEGS long, hind femora dark, distally spines with basal black spots.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Lygus flavoscutellatus Distant, 1904
SYNONYMS: Dagbertus flavoscutellatus (Distant, 1904); Taylorilygus flavoscutellatus (Distant, 1904)

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hemiptera; Heteroptera; MIRIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: specimen+photo, 1999, BESO 532, 533 (photo), 543, 548, 552, with ID ?Lygus; fieldspecimen+photo, Tupapa on 'Au, 5/2005, G.McCormack with ID as for BESO specimen.

References:
Special Reference: Eyles, A.C. (1999) New genera and species of the Lygus-Complex (Hemiptera: Miridae) in the New Zealand subregion compared with subgenera (now genera) studied by Leston (1952) and Niastama Reuter. NZ J. Zool. 26(4):303-354.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB05a, zupB07a, zM05a, zD07a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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