A new species of the genus Orius Wolff (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) found on Okinawa Island, Japan

Abstract

A new species of flower or minute pirate bug, Orius takaii, is described from Okinawa Island, the Ryukyus, Japan. This is the first Japanese representative of the nominotypical subgenus of Orius. The anthocorid was confirmed to be associated with a leguminous vine, Pueraria montana, and can be reared with a bulb mite, Rhizoglyphus robini Claparede.