Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae)
Author
Menard, Katrina L.
Author
Schuh, Randall T.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-11-23
2011
361
1
159
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/361.1
journal article
10.1206/361.1
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Dilatops
Weirauch
Dilatops
Weirauch, 2006: 227
(n. gen., descr., disc.).
DISCUSSION:
Weirauch (2006)
placed
Dilatops
in the
Leucophoropterini
based on its similarity to the genus
Lasiolabops
Poppius
of Africa and the Indo-Pacific, which also has stylate eyes and feeds on
Ficus
(Moraceae)
, but noted that it does not have most of the characters considered synapomorphies for the tribe.
Weirauch (2006)
did suggest that the ridges on the claw could be a synapomorphy with
Leucophoropterini
(
Weirauch, 2006
c: fig. 17), but the presence of claw ridges in members of other tribes (e.g.,
Pilophorus sp
.
,
Schuh, 1984
: fig. 34) suggests that this is likely not the case. Further, in our analysis of the
Phylinae
(Menard et al., in press),
Dilatops
is a sister group to the remaining
Phylinae
excluding the
Hallodapini
+
Auricillocorini
rather than a member of
Leucophoropterini
(Menard et al., in press), and therefore is moved to the
Phylini
pending revision of the tribal classification.