Plagiognathus grandis is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It was first described by the Finnish entomologist Odo Morannal Reuter in 1876.
Taxonomy and Classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Suborder: Heteroptera
- Family: Miridae (plant bugs)
- Subfamily: Phylinae
- Tribe: Phylini
- Genus: Plagiognathus
- Species: Plagiognathus grandis Reuter, 1876
Synonyms
- Gerhardiella rubidus Poppius, 1911
Common Name
The species is also referred to by the common name "dwarf mountain lupine."
Distribution
Plagiognathus grandis is native to North America and Middle America. Its recorded range includes the continental United States, Mexico, and has also been documented in Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Taxonomic Status
The species is recognized as valid by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG). A comprehensive revision of the New World Plagiognathus was published by Randall T. Schuh in 2001 in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (No. 266), which provided updated diagnostic features and clarified the taxonomy of the genus.
