It's also quite conspicuous:
Photographed near Kingley Vale on the South Downs Way in West Sussex, UK in June 2012, using... Olympus E-420, Zuiko 40-150 mm digital lens and three KOOD magnifiers. |
Grypocoris (Lophyromiris) stysi
(Wagner, 1968)
And if we're going to be completely honest, it was originally described by Fabricius in 1775. Wagner gets credit because he noted that some of the Calocoris sexguttatus around Europe were not quite like the others, in multiple ways but, for our purposes, the most notable is the orangish (rather than greenish) tint to the two rearmost light patches. As Fabricius' description had been based on the other form, Wagner has this species attributed to him.
As far as I'm aware, Kerzhner & Josifov moved both species into Grypocoris (a genus create 100 years before this species was identified) and the subgenus (Lophyromiris) (described by Wagner ten years before he identified this species) in 1999, but, seeing as they didn't create any names or deposit the type specimen for either species, the only credit they receive in the name of the species is the bracketing of Wagner's own credit.
Anyhow, brief discussion over, and into the taxonomy:
- Mirini
- Mirinae
- Miridae
- Miroidea
- Cimicomorpha
- Heteroptera
See also Pephricus, Anoplocnemis curvipes and Ranatra
- Hemiptera
- Condylognatha
- Paraneoptera
- Eumetabola
- Mirinae
- Miridae
- Miroidea
- Cimicomorpha
- Heteroptera
See also Pephricus, Anoplocnemis curvipes and Ranatra
- Hemiptera
- Condylognatha
- Paraneoptera
- Eumetabola
See also Dolichotachina caudata, Diasemopsis meigenii, Helophilus pendulus, Episyrphus balteatus, Senaspis haemorrhoa, Megistocera filipes, Panorpa germanica, Acada biseriata Anthocharis cardamines, Laelia robusta, Zebronia phenice, Andrena nigroaenea, Synagris proserpina, Vespula germanica, Astata tropicalis, Hagenomyia tristis, Crambus pascuella, Demetrias atricapillus, Anthia fornasiini, Melolontha melolontha, Malachius bipustulatus, Otiorhynchus atroapterus and Cheilomenes lunata.
- Neoptera
- Manopterygota
See also Rhyothemis semihyalina, Pseudagrion hageni and Enallagma cyathigerum
- Pterygota
- Dicondylia
- Insecta
- Hexapoda
- Arthropoda
See also Ligia oceanica, Dicranopalpus ramosus, Enoplognatha ovata, Argiope bruennichi and Hyllus argyrotoxus.
- Ecdysozoa
- Protostomia
- Nephrozoa
See also Burhinus vermiculatus, Chiromantis xerampelina, Thelotornis capensis, Trachylepis varia, Lygodactylus capensis, Ardea goliath, Chalcophaps indica, Sterna hirundo, Synchiropus splendidus and Hipposideros vittatus.
- Bilateralia
- Eumetazoa
- Animalia
- Eukaryota
And, unless I'm very much mistaken, that's all, folks!
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