Gargaphia decoris

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 Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota 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

• Drake, C.J. 1931: The Cornell University Entomological Expedition to South America, 1919 and 1920, scientific results, number 5, Hemiptera-Tingitidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 24(3): 510–514. abstract only seen Reference page. 

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