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Ash-gray Leaf Bugs
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Ash-gray Leaf Bugs

Piesmatidae

Piesmatidae is a small family of true bugs, commonly called ash-grey leaf bugs. The Piesmatidae are distributed mostly in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with some occurring in Africa, Australia and South America. A common species found throughout the Americas is Piesma cinereum.

Ash-grey leaf bugs are small insects, some 2–4 mm overall. The head, thorax and the firm part of the wings are extensively dimpled. This resembles the similar pattern of the Tingidae of the infraorder Cimicomorpha, and was initially taken to signify a close relationship. It is due to convergent evolution however.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Piesma

genusPiesma

Parapiesma

genusParapiesma

Mcateella

genusMcateella

Psammium

genusPsammium

Psamminae

subfamilyPsamminae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343428.