Capsus ater is a species of
bug in the
Miridae family that likely originated in
North America, but that is now found in Europe and across the
Palearctic to Siberia and in North America.[1][2][3][4]
Capsus ater is found in dry to moderately moist, open to partially shaded habitats In the Alps it rises to over 2000 meters above sea level. The bugs live on different grasses (
Poaceae) and do not seem to have any particular preference for certain species or genera.[5]
References
^Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). "Family Miridae". Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. New York: E. J. Brill. pp. 300–301.
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^Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.
^Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (Flechtenwanzen), Miridae (Weichwanzen) (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 75. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006,
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