Description of One New Species of Chileria and Three New Species of Orthotylus, with Nomenclatural and Distributional Notes on Neotropical Orthotylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylini)

Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the North American Genus Slaterocoris Wagner with New Synonymy, the Description of Five New Species and a New Genus from Mexico, and a Review of the Genus Scalponotatus Kelton (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)

“…Although the features of one orthotyline, Lopidea staphyleae , and one phyline, Plagiognathus albatus Van Duzee, 1915, were discussed, Davis (1955) predominantly documented the morphology of the mirines, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) and Leptopterna dolobrata (L., 1758). Several revisions (Southwood, 1953;Schwartz, 2004;Cassis, 2008;Forero, , 2009, discussions , and one survey paper (Pluot-Sigwalt and Matocq, 2006) have documented the morphology of the orthotyline female genitalia, but the results of these studies are not all easily compared to the observations of Davis (1955). Therefore, I comment on current usage and highlight structural differences between mirine and orthotyline female genitalia.…”

“…in Pluot-Sigwalt and Matocq, 2006). However, first gonapophyses are symmetrical in the Hadronema group , Araucanocoris Carvalho, 1983, Hadronemella Carvalho, 1984(Forero, 2009; Halticini , and in the types species of the apparently unrelated genera for Apachemiris Carvalho and Schaffner, 1977, Cyrtorhinus Fieber, 1858, Fieberocapsus Carvalho and Southwood, 1955, Hyalochloria Reuter, 1907, Jobertus Distant, 1893, Labopella Knight 1929, Mecomma Fieber, 1858, Parthenicus Reuter, 1876, Pseudoloxops Kirkaldy, 1905, Saileria Hsiao, 1945, Schaffneria Knight, 1966, and Sericophanes Reuter, 1876.…”

“…In a series of papers (Stonedahl andSchwartz, 1986, 1988;Stonedahl 1986, 1987;Stonedahl and Schuh, 1986;Schwartz and Scudder, 2003;Schwartz, 2004Schwartz, , 2005, endosomal spicules were clearly described and all conform to the dorsal (right) and ventral (left or lateral) arrangement around the ductus seminis. Forero (2009) reviewed South American Orthotylini of the genera Biobiocoris Carvalho, 1985, Chileria Carvalho, 1985, Hyporhinocoris Reuter, 1909, and Orthotylus and documented the one or two greatly ramose endosomal spicules for several of the species. Cassis (2008) provided documentation and discussion of the arrangement of the endosomal spicules in the 18 species of the Lattinova complex of Austromirini.…”

“…Terminology for the female genitalic structures presented by Davis (1955) and Scudder (1959) and employed by Schaffner and Schwartz (2008) and Forero ( , 2009) are followed in this paper. Although the features of one orthotyline, Lopidea staphyleae , and one phyline, Plagiognathus albatus Van Duzee, 1915, were discussed, Davis (1955) predominantly documented the morphology of the mirines, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) and Leptopterna dolobrata (L., 1758).…”

“…Herein the names applied by Scudder (1959) will be followed (cf. Forero , 2009) because this terminology was extended across the Heteroptera with reference to classification.…”