Stenodema vicinum

Stenodema vicinum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family that feeds on the grass blades of Muhlenbergia schreberi (nimblewill).[1]

Stenodema vicinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Heteroptera
Family:
Miridae
Genus:
Stenodema
Species:
S. vicinum
Binomial name
Stenodema vicinum

This species has been implicated in "silver top" damage to grass seed crops. This and other bugs of the stenodema genus were found to feed on grass stems by puncturing the leaf sheaths.[2]

References
  1. Muhlenbergia schreberi, Native Plant Database, University of Texas at Austin
  2. D. A. Arnott, I. Bergis, "Causal agents of silver top and other types of damage to grass seed crops", The Canadian Entymologist, Vol. 99, No. 9, June 1967


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