Diet

• Adults and nymphs: Primarily plant-feeding, using their piercing-sucking mouthparts to obtain fluids from plant tissues.

Range

• Taedia is a diverse New World genus, with numerous species occurring in North America, Mexico, Central America and South America.

• Around Zihua, it would likely be considered occasional to locally uncommon, where suitable vegetation is present.

Habitat

• Taedia species occur in woodland, forest edges, scrub, fields, gardens and other vegetated habitats.

• They are generally associated with foliage and can be found on shrubs, trees and herbaceous vegetation.

• Around Zihua, suitable habitat includes tropical deciduous forest, scrub, forest margins, gardens, roadside vegetation and disturbed areas with abundant plants.

Size

• T. fasciola is a small to medium-sized plant bug, with the slender to moderately elongate body typical of Mirini.

• Like other Taedia, it has a distinct pronotal collar and dark depressed areas behind the pronotal calli, useful characteristics for recognising the genus.

• Colouration is variable among Taedia, but species can show combinations of brown, reddish, yellowish and dark markings that provide camouflage among foliage.