Corrected Species Identification of the Predator Orius Pumilio (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) in a Research Colony

Authors

Jeffrey P. Shapiro, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Stephen M. Ferkovich, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in Florida Entomologist June 2009 : Vol. 92, Issue 2, pg(s) 399-399.

Abstract

Our laboratories have reported on the predatory minute pirate bugs (Family Anthocoridae) in a research colony that was obtained in Dec 2002. The species was originally thought to be Orius insidiosus (Say) (Ferkovich & Shapiro 2004a, 2004b, 2007; Ferkovich & Shapiro 2005a, 2005b, 2005c; Ferkovich et al. 2007). However, specimens from the colony were identified as O. pumilio (Champion) by T. Lewis (USDA, ARS, Wapato, WA) in Apr 2008, not O. insidiosus as previously reported in the publications listed above.