Calocoris affinis
{{Short description|Species of true bug}}
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| image = Calocoris.affinis.-.lindsey.jpg
| image_caption =C. affinis on a flower
| taxon = Calocoris affinis
| authority = (Herrich-Schäffer, 1835)
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Calocoris affinis is a species of insect in the subfamily Mirinae of the family Miridae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Switzerland and Greece.{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452214|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207015309/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452214|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 7, 2014|title=Calocoris affinis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1835)|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|accessdate=6 December 2014}}
Distribution
It is distributed in most of Europe, including Denmark, Germany, Turkey, Serbia, Finland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. It is normally found in meadows.{{cite web|url=http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Insects/Bugs/SuBugs/Calocoris.affinis.html|title=Calocoris affinis|author=Lindsey, J. K.|date=2003|accessdate=30 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402115216/http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Insects/Bugs/SuBugs/Calocoris.affinis.html|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
It is not found in Switzerland and Greece due to the mountainous terrain.{{cite web |url=http://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/237827 |title=Calocoris affinis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835) |publisher=Inventaire Nationale du Patromoine Naturel |date=2013 |accessdate=17 August 2015 |language=French}}{{clarify|date=October 2015}}
Characteristics
= Diet =
Its diet consists of Urtica dioica juices, Heracleum sphondylium nectar, and Centaurea jacea nectar.
References
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External links
- [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=U78x0NP4bWs Calocoris affinis] on YouTube
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Category:Insects described in 1835
Category:Taxa named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
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