Plagiognathus crocinus Knight, 1927: 12

SCHUH, RANDALL T., 2001, Revision Of New World Plagiognathus Fieber, With Comments On The Palearctic Fauna And The Description Of A New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (266), pp. 1-267 : 254

Plagiognathus crocinus Knight, 1927: 12 (n. sp.).

HOLOTYPE: Female: ‘‘ Bluemont, Va., July 1, 1914, WL McAtee Collector’ ’. Deposited in the National Museum of Natural History , Washington, D.C.

The species was apparently described on the basis of a single female. The holotype is in the National Museum of Natural History , Washington, D.C. The general coloration, including all appendages, is yellow­orange ; the clavus is narrowly darkened along the scutellum and claval commissure. The tibiae are yellowish and have no dark spots at the bases of the tibial spines although the spines themselves are dark. The structure of the head is Plagiognathus ­like, but the list of attributes given makes association with any described species difficult on the basis of the single female specimen.