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Corythucha aesculi

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Corythucha aesculi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Tingidae
Genus: Corythucha
Species:
C. aesculi
Binomial name
Corythucha aesculi
Osborn & Drake, 1916

Corythucha aesculi is a species of lace bug Tingidae native to North America. C. aesculi's host plant is the yellow buckeye, (Aesculus octandra) Marsh and the insect can attain very high densities.[1] C. aesculi is preyed upon by a wide variety of other insects, of which ladybugs seem to be the most important.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wm. C. Stehr. "The Biology of Corythucha aesculi O. & D. (Hemiptera, Tingitidae) on the yellow buckeye, Aesculus octandra Marsh" (PDF). Paper No. 13 from the Department of Zoology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.