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Family Miridae
- This page contains pictures and information about Red Mirid Bugs that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 10mm
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- This Red Mirid Bug is in subfamily Mirinae tribe Mirini. Bugs
in this group are medium to large in size. They have a distinct, raised
pronotal collar and an opaque corium and clavus.
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- We found this bug once in Carbrook Wetlands on Sep 2009. The bug was flying
around the plants Phyllota phylicoides.
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- As some other Mirid Bugs, this bug is plant sap-feeder but also predator of
larvae of other small insects.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 493.
- 2. Key to the genera of Mirinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) in New Zealand and descriptions of new taxa -
A. C. EYLES, New Zealand Journal ofZoology, Vol. 28: 197-221, 2001.
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