Tupiocoris notatus

Tupiocoris notatus
	Tupiocoris notatus adult
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Cimicomomorpha
Superfamily:	Miroidea
Family:	Miridae
Subfamily:	Mirinae
Genus:	Tupiocoris
Species:	T. notatus
Binomial name
	Tupiocoris notatus; (Distant, 1893)
Synonyms
	Tupiocoris disclusus Van Duzee, 1923 ; Tupiocoris minimus Quaintance, 1898 ; Cyrtopeltis notata Distant, 1893;

Tupiocoris notatus is a sap-sucking bug in the family of Miridae. It feeds on mesophyll cell contents of solanaceous plants like Datura and Nicotiana-species. The insect is about 2 – 3 mm long and, like all hemipterans, undergoes an incomplete metamorphosis with several nymph stages.

It is distributet mainly in the southern continental US and Mexico but also the Caribbean, Middle- and South America.^[2] This organism is used in research as a model organism in the field of chemical ecology to study plant-herbivore interactions between this insect and plants like Datura wrightii^[3] or the model plant Nicotiana attenuata.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Encyclopedia of life - T. notatus". Encyclopedia of life. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "ITIS Standard Report Page - T. notatus". ITIS. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
^ Van Dam, N. M.; Hare, D. J. (1998). "Differences in distribution and performance of two sap-sucking herbivores on glandular and non-glandular Datura wrightii". Ecological Entomology. 23: 22. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00110.x.

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