{{Short description|Species of true bug}} {{Expand German|topic=scitech|Orthops basalis|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |image = Orthops basalis.jpg |image_caption = |genus = Orthops |species = basalis |authority = (A. Costa, 1853) |synonyms = *''Phytocoris basalis'' <small>A. Costa, 1853</small> }}
'''''Orthops basalis''''' is a species of plant bug belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Azores, Bosnia and Herzegovina Faroe Islands, Iceland and Cyprus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014172810/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452077|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2013|title=''Orthops (Orthops) basalis'' (A. Costa 1853)|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|accessdate=October 14, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author1=Kerzhner I. M. |author2=Josifov M. |year=1999|chapter=Family Miridae|editor=Aukema, Berend |editor2=Rieger, Christian|title=Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region|volume=3, Cimicomorpha II|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Netherlands Entomological Society|pages=1–577, page 132|isbn=978-90-71912-19-1}}</ref> then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia and Siberia.
==Description== It is {{convert|5|mm}} long and is elongated with males often having three pale spots on the scutellum.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/orthops_basalis.html|title=''Orthops basalis''|publisher=British Bugs|accessdate=June 23, 2013}}</ref>
==Biology== ''Orthops basalis'' lives on various Apiaceae and have no specialization in certain genera. Both the nymphs and the adult bugs are often on the flowers, especially on the stems directly below the flowers. There they suck on the immature reproductive organs. <ref>Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 2: ''Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (Flechtenwanzen), Miridae (Weichwanzen)'' (= ''Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise''. 75. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, {{ISBN|3-931374-57-2}}, S. 96. </ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/orthops-basalis ''Orthops basalis'']
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Category:Insects described in 1853 Category:Hemiptera of Europe Category:Mirini Category:Taxa named by Achille Costa
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