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Plesiodema pinetella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Heteroptera

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Family
  
Miridae

Plesiodema pinetella

Plesiodema pinetella is a true bug. The species is found across Palearctic from Europe and Western North Africa East to Siberia and Central Asia.

Plesiodema pinetella feeds on Pinus, spruce Picea and Larix but in Central Europe especially on Pinus sylvestris, and Pinus nigra, and at higher altitudes in the Alps on mountain pine Pinus mugo. The imagines occur from late May to early July, where their life expectancy is only about two weeks.

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Plesiodema pinetella Wikipedia