Gargaphia decoris (female), body length about 5 mm (including hemelytra)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tingoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Cimicomorpha
Superfamilia: Tingoidea

Familia: Tingidae
Subfamilia: Tinginae
Genus: Gargaphia
Species: Gargaphia decoris

Name

  • Gargaphia decoris Drake, 1931

References

Primary references

Additional references

  • Barboza, D.M. et al. 2009: Plant population structure and insect herbivory on Solanum mauritianum Scopoli (Solanaceae) in southern Brazil: a support to biological control. Brazilian archives of biology and technology, 52(2): 413–420. ISSN: 1516-8913 DOI: 10.1590/S1516-89132009000200019
  • Hope, K.J.; Olckers, T. 2011: Gargaphia decoris (Hemiptera: Tingidae) from two South American provenances are equally safe for release against the invasive tree, Solanum mauritianum (Solanaceae). African entomology, 19(1): 106–112. DOI: 10.4001/003.019.0108
  • Olckers, T. 2000: Biology, host specificity and risk assessment of Gargaphia decoris, the first agent to be released in South Africa for the biological control of the invasive tree Solanum mauritianum. BioControl, 45(3): 373–388. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009907209768
  • Olckers, T.; Lotter, W.D. 2004: Possible non-target feeding by the bugweed lace bug, Gargaphia decoris (Tingidae), in South Africa: field evaluations support predictions of laboratory host-specificity tests. African entomology, 12(2): 283–285. [not seen]

Vernacular names

English: woolly nightshade lace bug
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