Corythucha aesculi

Corythucha aesculi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Tingidae
Genus:	Corythucha
Species:	C. aesculi
Binomial name
Corythucha aesculi O. & D.

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.^[1] C. aesculi is preyed upon by a wide variety of other insects, of which ladybugs seem to be the most important.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Wm. C. Stehr. "The Biology of Corythucha aesculi O. & D. (Hemiptera, Tingitidae) on the yellow buckeye, Aesculus octandra Marsh". Paper No. 13 from the Department of Zoology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/2919/1/V38N01_013.pdf.