Miridae {family} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera;

The Miridae are a large and diverse insect family at one time known by the taxonomic synonym Capsidae. Species in the family may be referred to as capsid bugs or "mirid bugs". Common names include plant bugs, leaf bugs, and grass bugs. It is the largest family of true bugs belonging to the suborder Heteroptera; it includes over 10,000 known species, and new ones are being described constantly. Most widely known mirids are species that are notorious agricultural pests that pierce plant tissues, feed on the sap, and sometimes transmit viral plant diseases. Some species however, are predatory. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	63,915	Public Records:	39,666
Specimens with Sequences:	60,277	Public Species:	1,550
Specimens with Barcodes:	55,901	Public BINs:	2,904
Species:	1,797
Species With Barcodes:	1,245
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Canada 11756 France 936 Austria 493 United States 11284 Tanzania 682 Bangladesh 441 Costa Rica 9495 Ecuador 660 Saudi Arabia 312 South Africa 3341 Argentina 640 Thailand 295 Germany 3038 Norway 624 Peru 289 Pakistan 1422 Netherlands 576 Mexico 262 Australia 1145 Ghana 518