Gastrodes grossipes

Gastrodes grossipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Rhyparochromidae
Genus: Gastrodes
Species:
G. grossipes
Binomial name
Gastrodes grossipes
(De Geer, 1773)

Gastrodes grossipes, the pine cone bug, is a true bug found in most of Europe except in the far north.[1] To the east, the distribution area extends over Asia minor and the Caucasus, and then across the Palearctic to Siberia. The food plant is Scots pine.[2]

References

  1. ^ Feci, E.; Battisti, A.; Capretti, P.; Tegli, S. (December 2003). "An association between the fungus Sphaeropsis sapinea and the cone bug Gastrodes grossipes in cones of Pinus nigra in Italy". Forest Pathology. 32 (4–5): 241–247. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0329.2002.00286.x. ISSN 1437-4781.
  2. ^ "Gastrodes grossipes". CABI Compendium. 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2024-01-03.


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