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Orthotylus tenellus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Miridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Genus
  
Orthotylus

Similar
  
Orthotylus flavosparsus, Orthotylus marginalis, Mecomma ambulans, Orthops kalmii, Pilophorus cinnamopterus

Orthotylus tenellus is a species of bug from a family of Miridae that can be found in Benelux, Eastern Europe (except for Lithuania and Russia), Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Scandinavia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and northern states of former Yugoslavia.

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Description

Adults are 4–4.5 millimetres (0.16–0.18 in) long, and are active from June–August.

Ecology

The species are feeding on trees like: oak, ash, and hazel.

Subspecies

  • Orthotylus tenellus meridionalis Josifov, 2006
  • Orthotylus tenellus tenellus (Fallen, 1807)
  • References

    Orthotylus tenellus Wikipedia