Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world

Abstract

A systematic revision, redescription and a first generic conspectus on a worldwide basis of the scarcely studied plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) is given. This reclassification is of great significance to agriculture as some monaloniines are major pests of cocoa, cashew, tea and other foodplants. A key to genera is given, as well as generic diagnoses and descriptions, photographs, scanning electron micrographs, illustration of male and female genitalia, host plant information and distributional maps. This reclassification is based on a phylogenetic analysis of external and genitalic characters, with 118 species and 32 genera codified. The phylogenetic analysis resulted in the recognition of a monophyletic Monaloniini, and strongly supported non‐monophyly of the previously recognized subtribes Monaloniina and Odoniellina, resulting in the rejection of a formal subtribal classification for the tribe. The following new synonymy is recognized: Boxia (= Boxiopsis syn. nov.), Chamus (= Chamopsis syn. nov., Parachamus syn. nov.), Volkeliopsis (= Mircarvalhoia syn. nov.), Platyngomiris (= Platyngomiriodes syn. nov.), Platyngomiris coreoides (= Platyngomiriodes apliformis syn. nov.), Lycidocoris (= Pantilioforma syn. nov.). Afropeltis is raised to full generic status. Onconotellus and Pachypeltopsis are transferred to the Orthotylinae and Deraeocorinae, respectively. Volkeliopsis mindanao sp. nov. is described as new to science. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London

Total evidence phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of Euschistus Dallas within Carpocorini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae)

“…Wu et al ., ; Zhang et al ., ), phylogenetic analyses for genus‐ or tribal‐level taxa are usually still generated using only morphological data (e.g. Garbelotto et al ., ; Namyatova & Cassis, ), yet phylogenies using combined datasets have been published (e.g. Menard et al ., ; Forero & Weirauch, ).…”

Diversity of bacterial symbionts associated with the tropical plant bug Monalonion velezangeli (Hemiptera: Miridae) revealed by high-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing.

“…Diversity and functional characterization of symbiotic microbiota in Miridae plant bugs have been poorly studied, except for the strictly phytophagous cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus [38] and the omnivorous Adelphocoris suturalis [39,40] to our knowledge. We consider M. velezangeli as a strict phytophagous insect based on the reports of host plant species identified for this plant bug [22][23][24], the lack of reports of other feeding habits and the fact that all known members of the mirid subfamily Bryocorinae are herbivorous as well [41,42].…”

Diversity of bacterial symbionts associated with the tropical plant bug Monalonion velezangeli (Hemiptera: Miridae) revealed by high-throughput 16SrRNA sequencing.

“…Diversity and functional characterization of symbiotic microbiota in Miridae plant bugs have been poorly studied, except for the strictly phytophagous cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Fu et al 2021) and the omnivorous Adelphocoris suturalis (Xue et al 2021;Luo et al 2021) to our knowledge. We consider M. velezangeli as a strict phytophagous insect based on the reports of host plant species identified for this plant bug (Giraldo J. and Benavides M. 2012; Rodas et al 2014;Ocampo Flórez et al 2018), the lack of reports of other feeding habits and the fact that all known members of the mirid subfamily Bryocorinae are herbivorous as well (Jung and Lee 2012;Namyatova and Cassis 2016).…”