Nabis ericetorum is a species of damsel bug in the family Nabidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Nabidae |
| Genus: | Nabis |
| Species: | N. ericetorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Nabis ericetorum Scholz, 1847
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Occurrence and habitat
editThe species has its main distribution in parts of Europe influenced by the Atlantic climate and occurs in northern, western and central Europe and east to central and northern Russia. In the Mediterranean, it occurs only in the Iberian Peninsula. It rises in the Alps to about 1000 meters above sea level.
It is found on Calluna heaths , where both the nymphs and the imagines are well camouflaged by their colour.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Nabis ericetorum". ZipCode Zoo.
- ^ Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 1: Cimicomorpha: Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha (Teil 1) (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 77. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-49-1, S. 175ff.
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