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True Bugs of Zihuatanejo

SUBORDER HETEROPTERA

Keltonia Plant Bug

Keltonia (Genus)

-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-​True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies (Order Hemiptera)

-True Bugs (Suborder Heteroptera)​

-Cimicomorph Bugs (Infraorder Cimicomorpha)

-Superfamily Miroidea​

-Plant Bugs (Family Miridae)

-Subfamily Phylinae

-Tribe Phylini

-Subtribe Keltoniina

-Genus Keltonia


Most Keltonia species are specialized, feeding on a single or a few closely related host plants. The nymphs develop on the reproductive structures of their host plants, such as flower buds and pollen-shedding flowers.

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