Corythucha aesculi

{{Short description|Species of true bug}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Corythucha | species = aesculi | authority = Osborn & Drake, 1916 }}

'''''Corythucha aesculi''''' is a species of lace bug Tingidae native to North America. ''C. aesculi'''s host plant is the yellow buckeye, (''Aesculus octandra'') Marsh and the insect can attain very high densities.<ref name="Stehr">{{cite web | url = https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/2919/1/V38N01_013.pdf | title = The Biology of ''Corythucha aesculi'' O. & D. (Hemiptera, Tingitidae) on the yellow buckeye, ''Aesculus octandra'' Marsh | publisher = Paper No. 13 from the Department of Zoology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio | author = Wm. C. Stehr}}</ref> ''C. aesculi'' is preyed upon by a wide variety of other insects, of which ladybugs seem to be the most important.<ref name="Stehr"/>

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Category:Tingidae Category:Hemiptera of North America