Revision Of New World Plagiognathus Fieber, With Comments On The Palearctic Fauna And The Description Of A New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
SCHUH, RANDALL T.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2001
2001-11-08
2001
266
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282001%29266%3C0001%3ARONWPF%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2001)266<0001:RONWPF>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
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Microphylellus minuendus
Knight, 1927: 10
(n.
sp.).
HOLOTYPE
:
Female
: ‘‘
Plum Point
,
June
21, 14 Md.’’
Deposited
in the
National Museum of Natural History
,
Washington
, D.C.
The synonymy of
Microphylellus
with
Plagiognathus
leaves the placement of this species from
Maryland
in question. The
holotype
female is almost uniformly light orange in coloration, except for the clypeus adjacent to the labrum and the maxillary plates. The body is very broad and convexly round ed, including the pronotum. The head is much narrower than the strongly declivent pronotum, short, and distinctly hypognathus. Except for the coloration, the general appearance is similar to that of
Monalocoris americanus
Wagner and Slater. During
the course of this study I have not examined any taxon with associated females that would seem to conform to
minuendus
.