Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hemiptera

Suborder: Heteroptera

Infraorder: Cimicomorpha

Superfamily: Miroidea

Family: Miridae

Genus: over 1,300

Specie: over 10,000 known

 

Member of the Miridae family can go by the general name mirid or capsid.

 

There are several species and genera of mirid that attack cocoa.

They are…

Distantiella Theobroma (black cocoa mirid)

Sahlbergella singularis (brown cocoa mirid)

Helopeltis spp.
(H. theivora and H. antonii)

Monalonion spp.

 

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