A list of the species of the aquatic and subaquatic Heteroptera and Saldidae and Leptopodidae known to occur in Iraq is published. The list contains several new records for Iraq. Hebrus syriacus Horvath from Israel is redescribed.
The taxonomy and distribution of the lateralis group of the genus Dimorphocoris Reuter of Greece and the Middle East is described. New species: Dimorphocoris sari sp. n.
The following 17 new Neotropical Cicadellidae species are described: Portanus inflatus n. sp. (Peru), Egenus triplehorni n. sp. (Brazil), E. gracillimus n. sp. (Brazil), Scaphytopius lineus n. sp. (Peru), S. spinosus n. sp. (Peru), S. atrifrons n. sp. (Peru), S. divisus n. sp. (Peru), S. bifidellus n. sp. (Peru), Agudus strigilifer n. sp. (Brazil), A. amabilis n. sp. (Argentina), Paraphlepsius orthana n. sp. (Bolivia), Chlorotettix bimaculatus n. sp. (Brazil), C. sinchona n. sp. (Peru), C. hastulus n. sp. (Brazil), C. frameus n. sp. (Brazil), C. torgua n. sp. (Brazil) and Stirellus obrienorum n. sp. (Brazil). Scaphoideus tesselatus Osb. (Guatemala) is transferred into the genus Portanus Ball and Dicyphonia picturata Osb. (Bolivia) into the genus Scaphytopius Ball.
A list of the Miridae species of the Khorasan province in N .E. Iran is published. New synonymy: Orthotylus rudbaricus Linnavuori 1997 = O. turcmenorum Puchkov, 1976, syn.n.
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