Miscellanea Miridologica (Insecta: Heteroptera)

Abstract

Eurotas Distant, 1884 is transferred from Mirinae, Mirini to Orthotylinae, Orthotylini (new subfamily placement) and Femurocoris Carvalho, 1977 is transferred from Mirinae, Mirini to Deraeocorinae, Hyaliodini (new subfamily placement). The following new combinations are suggested:

Fangumellus flavobadius: a new genus and species of plant bug from Laos (Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae, Mirini)

“…Yasunaga and Duwal 2006). Although several recent works (e.g., Schwartz and Chérot 2005) carefully revised the generic placements for the species assigned to the Lygus -complex, dozens of species are still placed in Lygus sensu lato, and, needless to say, require further critical revisions.…”

Review of the plant bug genus Prolygus and related mirine taxa from eastern Asia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae)

“…The best characters to distinguish Apolygopsis from Apolygus are found in the male genitalia (cf. Figs 170-173); specifi cally, the apical prong of left paramere and the two long, slender, basally fused spicules sheathed within a trough-shaped sclerite are unique to Apolygopsis (SCHWARTZ & CHÉROT 2005, YASUNAGA et al 2002.…”

“…POPPIUS 1914, CARVALHO 1956, SCHWARTZ & FOOTTIT 1998; currently quite a few species remain in Lygus as incertae sedis (SCHUH 2013). For Asian taxa, recent workers have verifi ed the proper identities of some of these taxa (e.g., SCHWARTZ & KERZHNER 1997, LU & ZHENG 1998, YASUNAGA et al 2002, SCHWARTZ & CHÉROT 2005. However, further investigation is required to defi ne concepts for genera and species remaining in Lygus sensu lato.…”

Four new species of Phytocoris Fallén (Hemiptera, Miridae) from the Davis Mountains in Texas and further documentation of known species of Jeff Davis County

“…He also was instrumental in grouping the taxa into four tentative species groupings, primarily based on color patterns of the hemelytra, wing membrane and antennae, length of antennal segment I, setal vestiture, and shape of the endosomal sclerites in the males ( Knight 1923 , 1941 ). Other miridologists subsequently described additional species of Phytocoris from North America such as Bliven (1956 , 1959 , 1966 ), Kelton (1979) , Henry (1974 , 1979 , 1985 , 2009 ), as well as Schwartz and Chérot (2005) , some of whom utilized Knight’s framework to contextualize their species relationship to other taxa. Stonedahl also described many species ( Stonedahl 1984 , 1988 , 1995 ), and expanded on Knight’s hypothesis with his monograph of the western species ( Stonedahl 1988 ), which included investigating morphological diversity of the species across the genus, the phylogeography of the western North American taxa, and expanding the species groups to 20.…”