DESCRIPTIONS OF NINE NEW SPECIES OF MELANOTRICHUS REUTER FROM NORTH AMERICA (HEMIPTERA, MIRIDAE)

1 June 1927

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 59 (6) , 142-147
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent59142-6

Abstract

For some time the writer has noticed in the genus Orthotylus Fieb., that the flavosparsus group of species present characters worthy of generic recognition namely: dorsum bearing two types of pubescence, simple hairs intermixed with recumbent, scale-like pubescence; left genital clasper represented by a simple curved hook, not bifurcate into two nearly equal parts as in typical Orthotylus. The genus Orthotylus Fieb. (type nassatus Fab.) is characterized by bearing only simple pubescence, while the left genital clasper is bifurcate near base, thus divided into two prominent arms (see figures 83-87, Hemiptera Connecticut, 1923). These two groups of species differ more widely than many recognized genera in the family Miridae, hence the writer proposes to recognize them as valid genera.

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