Talk:Capsodes flavomarginatus

Plant hosts

If someone could get a hold of a copy of The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1959) volume 95, on page 207 there is a note about the host plants of Capsodes flavomarginatus. It reads in part:

The host-plants of Capsodes flavomarginatus (Don.) (Hem., Miridae). — In two previous notes (1958, Ent. mon. Mag., 94:240; 1959, ibid., 95:34) I discussed the question of the food plants of the three British species of Capsodes and presented evidence that certain genera of Papilionaceae, especially Lotus, Vicia and Trifolium, were the hosts of these insects, though the evidence in the case of C. flavomarginatus was slender. My conclusions with respect to flavomarginatus and gothicus (L.) were based on observations made at Beenham Heath, Berks, in 1958 (op. cit.) and I revisited the woodland track where the two species occurred on June 6th, 1959. My visit the previous year had been made in early July, when gothicus adults were extremely abundant, but only two flavomarginatus were taken. However, in June, 1959, all the adults taken (12) were flavomarginatus, though gothicus nymphs were present in large numbers. Several nymphs of flavomarginatus were found also. The circumstances of these captures were precisely similar to those of the previous year and consequently need not be described in detail again. Clearly, as I already suspected, flavomarginatus is associated with the same Papilionaceous hosts as gothicus, but occurs rather earlier in the year. Nymphs of gothicus, reared indoors, fed occasionally on aphids as well as on the flowers and pods of the host plants but gave the impression of being only mildly predatory as compared, for example, with species of Globiceps.

Massee (1954, Trans. Soc. Brit. Ent. 11:245-280) associates Capsodes flavomarginatus with cow-wheat, Melampyrum pratense L. and this association is quoted by Southwood and Leston (1959, Land and Water Bugs Brit. Is., Lond. : 301).

If someone could read the full article and get the full bibliographic information for a proper citation, that would be good. --Bejnar (talk) 18:54, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

• A similar problem exists with Southwood and Leston, Land and water bugs of the British Isles (1959) who said at page 301:

Capsodes flavomarginatus (Donovan) Plate 52, 6 This bug has been recorded from Staffs., Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Devon and Cornwall ; abroad it is found in western and southern Europe. Open grassy patches in damp woodlands are its habitat; it is principally associated with common cow-wheat,^6* but adults are found on ... Adults are found, generally near the coast, from June until early August; various Papilionaceae, such as narrow-leaved vetch, are host-plants.

It is not clear that the last sentence refers to Capsodes flavomarginatus, although it seems to be true. Any help would be appreciated. --Bejnar (talk) 18:54, 10 January 2014 (UTC)