Revision of Liorhyssus hyalinus, hyaline grass bug, attacking lettuce from Thu, 2013-06-13 12:16

Jesse Bamba brought me two specimens of a scentless plant bug collected from romaine lettuce. I identified these as Liorhyssus hyalinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), the hyaline grass bug. This bug is listed in Gross (1963) [1]: "The true bugs (Heteroptera) are generally considered to be of minimal importance regarded as vectors of plant pathogens, although they share similar feeding behaviors with homopterans ". Her article goes on to explain why this is so.


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