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Adelphocoris-Creontiades - 
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complex
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Hypothetical 
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Body elongate, parallel or subparallel-sided, dorsally glabrous or with one or two 
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, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCF9F17BFC205421" box="[772,921,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
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, 
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Poppius, 1915
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, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE2FF133FDE35459" box="[466,602,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
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, 
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Carvalho 
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<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FB95F133FA215459" author="Carvalho" box="[1128,1432,332,357]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Carvalho, J. C. M. &amp; Gagne, W. (1968) Miridae of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 36 (7), 147 - 219." type="journal article" year="1968">Carvalho &amp; Gagné, 1968</bibRefCitation>
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, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF110FEBD54B4" box="[151,260,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Gollneria</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FEEEF110FE7254B4" author="Carvalho" box="[275,459,367,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Carvalho, J. C. M. (1983) Analecta Miridologica, VI. Observations on the Types Specimens described by Poppius in the collections of the Berlin Museum. Revista brasileira de Biologia, 43 (4), 381 - 384." type="journal article" year="1983">Carvalho, 1983</bibRefCitation>
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, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE23F110FDD654B4" box="[478,623,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
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, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCD4F110FB0954B4" authority="Yasunaga, 1998" authorityName="Yasunaga" authorityYear="1998" box="[809,1200,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Neomegacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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Yasunaga, 1998
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, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FB3EF110FA8054B4" box="[1219,1337,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Neopeplus</emphasis>
Chérot, 
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, 
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Yasunaga, 1997
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, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC9DF1EBFB6F5491" authority="Reuter, 1905" authorityName="Reuter" authorityYear="1905" box="[864,1238,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC9DF1EBFB885491" box="[864,1073,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
Reuter, 1905
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FB1AF1EBFEE154EC" authority="Yasunaga, 1998" authorityName="Yasunaga" authorityYear="1998" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Poppiocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FB1AF1EBFA225491" box="[1255,1435,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Poppiocapsidea</emphasis>
Yasunaga, 1998
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE8DF1C8FDF754EC" box="[368,590,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Poppiomegacoelum" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE8DF1C8FDF754EC" box="[368,590,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Poppiomegacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD9FF1C8FD0454EC" bold="true" box="[610,701,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A24957A89408FFE6FD9FF1C8FD0454EC" box="[610,701,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" rank="genus">n. gen.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD25F1C8FC0154EC" box="[728,952,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pseudomegacoelum" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD25F1C8FC0154EC" box="[728,952,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pseudomegacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC31F1C8FB9E54EC" bold="true" box="[972,1063,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A24957A89408FFE6FC31F1C8FB9E54EC" box="[972,1063,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" rank="genus">n. gen.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FBBFF1C8FA2E54EC" authority="Poppius, 1910" authorityName="Poppius" authorityYear="1910" box="[1090,1431,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Tricholygus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FBBFF1C8FB7C54EC" box="[1090,1221,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Tricholygus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FB27F1C8FA2E54EC" author="Poppius" box="[1242,1431,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Poppius, B. (1910 b) 12. Hemiptera. 4. Miridae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Microphysidae und Nabidae. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach den Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch Ostafrikas 1905 - 1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr Yngve Sjostedt. Vol. 2. Palmquist, Stockholm, 34 pp. [pp. 26 - 60]" type="book chapter" year="1910" yearSuffix="b">Poppius, 1910b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF1A2FEFA54C8" box="[151,323,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Vairocanamiris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FEB4F1A2FE4454C8" author="Yasunaga" box="[329,509,476,501]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Yasunaga T. (2011) A new mirine plant bug genus and species from Indian Sikkim, with a review of the related genera Cheilocapsidea Poppius and Cheilocapsus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae). Heteropterus Revista de Entomologia [Jordi Ribes Festschrift], 11 (2), 365 - 374." type="journal article" year="2011">Yasunaga, 2011</bibRefCitation>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDF5F1A2FC9E54C8" authority="Carvalho, 1987" authorityName="Carvalho" authorityYear="1987" box="[520,807,476,501]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Waucoris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDF5F1A2FDC854C8" box="[520,625,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Waucoris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FD85F1A3FC9E54C8" author="Carvalho" box="[632,807,476,501]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Carvalho, J. C. M. (1987) Waucoris new genus of Miridae from Papua New Guinea (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 47 (1 / 2), 155 - 164." type="journal article" year="1987">Carvalho, 1987</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C314654A9408FFE7FF3AF180FD12534B" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="156" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF180FB1157B9" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF3AF180FEF55724" bold="true" box="[199,332,511,536]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Discussion.</emphasis>
The generic-level classification of the tribe 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCB0F180FC2D5724" box="[845,916,511,536]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
remains unclear. Several authors, as detailed below, have mentioned the hypothesis of a close relationship between some of the genera treated in this contribution. Usually they have compared only a limited number of genera in each work, however a critical reading of their papers underlines multiple similarities between a majority of taxa across their works.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF2EFFE3757F1" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<collectingCountry id="F31976519408FFE6FF3AF2EFFF5F5794" box="[199,230,656,680]" name="American Samoa" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">As</collectingCountry>
already noted, the genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDDBF2F0FD175794" box="[550,686,655,680]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDDBF2F0FD175794" box="[550,686,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FC6AF2F0FBF85794" author="Distant" box="[919,1089,655,680]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Distant, W. L. (1883) Insecta Rhynchota. Hemiptera Heteroptera. Vol. I. In: Godman, F. D. &amp; Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali Americana. R. H. Porter, London, pp. 225 - 264." type="book chapter" year="1883">Distant (1883)</bibRefCitation>
for the species 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FAF6F2F0FE3257F1" authority="Stal, 1862" authorityName="Stal" authorityYear="1862" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubrinerve">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAF6F2F0FEB657F1" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum rubrinerve</emphasis>
Stål, 1862
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF2A7FB5D5660" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
Later, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FEE4F2A7FE4C57CC" author="Reuter" box="[281,501,727,752]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Reuter, O. M. (1905 a) Ad cognitem Capsidarum aethiopicarum. II. Ofversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Forhandlingar, 47 (10), 1 - 22. [1904]" type="journal article" year="1905" yearSuffix="a">Reuter (1905a: 4)</bibRefCitation>
, in his original description of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC79F2A8FBEC57CC" box="[900,1109,727,752]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC79F2A8FBEC57CC" box="[900,1109,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, briefly compared it with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF283FE915629" box="[151,296,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF283FE915629" box="[151,296,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In his African fauna study, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FD93F283FCF15628" author="Poppius" box="[622,840,764,789]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Poppius, B. (1912) Die Miriden der Athiopischen Region. Mirina, Cylapina, Bryocorina. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, 41 (3), 1 - 203, 1 pl." type="journal article" year="1912">Poppius (1912: 18)</bibRefCitation>
compared 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC3BF283FB2E5629" box="[966,1175,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC3BF283FB2E5629" box="[966,1175,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with both 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FAE9F283FA255629" box="[1300,1436,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAE9F283FA255629" box="[1300,1436,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF37F360FEE25604" box="[202,347,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF37F360FEE25604" box="[202,347,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE5DF360FDEA5604" box="[416,595,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoridea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE5DF360FDEA5604" box="[416,595,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoridea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD66F360FC895604" box="[667,816,799,824]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD66F360FC895604" box="[667,816,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCB8F35EFCD85604" box="[837,865,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">op</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC8EF35EFC365604" box="[883,911,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">cit</emphasis>
.: 47). 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FC1DF360FB665604" author="Linnavuori" box="[992,1247,799,824]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Linnavuori, R. E. (1974 a) Studies on African Miridae. Occasional Publication of the Entomological Society of Nigeria, 12 (1974), 1 - 67." type="journal article" year="1974" yearSuffix="a">Linnavuori (1974a: 8)</bibRefCitation>
also considered 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF33BFE915661" box="[151,296,836,861]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF33BFE915661" box="[151,296,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FEA3F33BFD965661" box="[350,559,836,861]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FEA3F33BFD965661" box="[350,559,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as closely related, essentially separated by the head structure.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF318FDFA56FB" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF318FE1056BC" author="Poppius" box="[199,425,871,896]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Poppius, B. (1915 a) Zur Kenntnis der Indo-Australischen Capsarien. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 13, 1 - 89." type="journal article" year="1915" yearSuffix="a">Poppius (1915a: 14)</bibRefCitation>
suggested relationships between his new genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC3FF318FBC956BC" box="[962,1136,871,896]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC3FF318FBC956BC" box="[962,1136,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
—erected to accommodate a species described by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FE68F3F3FD8F5698" author="Distant" box="[405,566,908,933]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Distant, W. L. (1909) LII. Description of Oriental Capsidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, IV, 440 - 454." type="book chapter" year="1909">Distant (1909)</bibRefCitation>
in 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDA4F3F3FD535699" box="[601,746,908,933]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDA4F3F3FD535699" box="[601,746,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
—and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCC9F3F3FBBC5699" box="[820,1029,908,933]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCC9F3F3FBBC5699" box="[820,1029,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by choosing to compare it only with this last genus and with 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE59F3D0FD8256F4" box="[420,571,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Cheilocapsus</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF3ABFDCB519C" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF3ABFE3856D1" author="Carvalho" box="[199,385,980,1005]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Carvalho, J. C. M. (1952) On the major classification of the Miridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) (with keys to subfamilies and tribes and a catalog of the world genera). Anais da Academia brasileira de Ciencias, 24 (1), 31 - 110." type="journal article" year="1952">Carvalho (1952)</bibRefCitation>
synonymized 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDD5F3ABFD6F56D1" box="[552,726,980,1005]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDD5F3ABFD6F56D1" box="[552,726,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCEDF3ABFC2D56D1" box="[784,916,980,1005]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Tricholygus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCEDF3ABFC2D56D1" box="[784,916,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Tricholygus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC25F3ABFBD956D1" box="[984,1120,980,1005]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC25F3ABFBD956D1" box="[984,1120,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Later, he (1983) described 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF388FEBD512C" box="[151,260,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Gollneria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF388FEBD512C" box="[151,260,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Gollneria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a new genus, unfortunately without any comparison with other mirine genera, just stating 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FAE8F388FA3B512C" box="[1301,1410,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Gollneria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAE8F388FA3B512C" box="[1301,1410,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Gollneria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not a true 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FEF6F463FE255109" box="[267,412,1052,1077]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FEF6F463FE255109" box="[267,412,1052,1077]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Finally, the same author (
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FD37F463FC5F5109" author="Carvalho" box="[714,998,1052,1077]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Carvalho, J. C. M. (1987) Waucoris new genus of Miridae from Papua New Guinea (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 47 (1 / 2), 155 - 164." type="journal article" year="1987">Carvalho 1987: 156–157</bibRefCitation>
) erected 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FBB3F462FB0E5108" box="[1102,1207,1053,1076]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Waucoris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FBB3F462FB0E5108" box="[1102,1207,1053,1076]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Waucoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to accommodate all species described by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FE79F440FD825164" author="Poppius" box="[388,571,1087,1112]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Poppius, B. (1915 a) Zur Kenntnis der Indo-Australischen Capsarien. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 13, 1 - 89." type="journal article" year="1915" yearSuffix="a">Poppius (1915a)</bibRefCitation>
under the name 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD08F440FC335164" box="[757,906,1087,1112]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD08F440FC335164" box="[757,906,1087,1112]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Indo-Australian region and compared 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF41AFEB95140" box="[151,256,1125,1148]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Waucoris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF41AFEB95140" box="[151,256,1125,1148]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Waucoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
only with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE7BF41BFDA25141" box="[390,539,1124,1149]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE7BF41BFDA25141" box="[390,539,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
on the basis of not very relevant character states (shape of larger areola of membrane and coloration of tibial spines).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF4D3FB0851DB" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF4D3FE7851F8" author="Schmitz" box="[199,449,1196,1221]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Schmitz, G. (1976) La Faune terrestre de l'ile de Saint-Helene. 3 eme partie. 10. Famille Miridae. Musee royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Annales, Ser. in- 8. Zoologie, 215, 473 - 533." type="journal article" year="1976">Schmitz (1976: 480)</bibRefCitation>
, partly based on literature, assumed 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC72F4D3FB9D51F9" box="[911,1060,1196,1221]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC72F4D3FB9D51F9" box="[911,1060,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FBC6F4D3FB7A51F9" box="[1083,1219,1196,1221]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FBC6F4D3FB7A51F9" box="[1083,1219,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FAF6F4D3FA2551F9" box="[1291,1436,1196,1221]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAF6F4D3FA2551F9" box="[1291,1436,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
belonged to the same group of impunctate 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD88F4B0FD0551D4" box="[629,700,1231,1256]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
by their head, antennal and tarsal structures.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF48AFD885046" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF48AFE6B5031" author="Yasunaga" box="[199,466,1268,1293]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Yasunaga, T. (1990 a) A revision of the Genus Adelphocoris Reuter (Heteroptera, Miridae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Entomology, 58 (3), 606 - 618." type="journal article" year="1990" yearSuffix="a">Yasunaga (1990a: 607)</bibRefCitation>
noted a resemblance between 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCC2F48BFC6D5031" box="[831,980,1268,1293]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCC2F48BFC6D5031" box="[831,980,1268,1293]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FBE9F48BFB255031" box="[1044,1180,1268,1293]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FBE9F48BFB255031" box="[1044,1180,1268,1293]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but considered these genera, with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FED4F568FE51500C" box="[297,488,1303,1328]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocorisella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FED4F568FE51500C" box="[297,488,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocorisella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are more closely related to 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCD5F568FC18500C" box="[808,929,1303,1328]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCD5F568FC18500C" box="[808,929,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
than to 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC03F568FB37500C" box="[1022,1166,1303,1328]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC03F568FB37500C" box="[1022,1166,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Yasunaga pers. comm. dated March 0 4th 2015 onwards). In their description of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCE4F541FA25506B" authority="Miyamoto &amp; Yasunaga" authorityName="Miyamoto &amp; Yasunaga" authorityYear="1993" box="[793,1436,1342,1368]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocorisella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCE4F541FC61506B" box="[793,984,1342,1367]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocorisella</emphasis>
, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FC15F541FA25506B" author="Miyamoto" box="[1000,1436,1342,1368]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Miyamoto, S. &amp; Yasunaga, T. (1993) A new Genus of the Mirid Bug, Adelphocorisella (Heteroptera, Miridae), with Two New Species from Japan. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 49, 47 - 52." type="journal article" year="1993">Miyamoto &amp; Yasunaga (1993: 47, 48)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
compared it only with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE69F51DFD905047" box="[404,553,1378,1403]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE69F51DFD905047" box="[404,553,1378,1403]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF5F7FD4950DA" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
In the second part of his revision of Japanese 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD3DF5F9FCF150A3" box="[704,840,1414,1439]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD3DF5F9FCF150A3" box="[704,840,1414,1439]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and allies, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FC38F5F7FB7150A3" author="Yasunaga" box="[965,1224,1414,1440]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Yasunaga, T. (1997 b) Revision of the Mirine Genus Creontiades Distant and Allies from Japan (Heteroptera: Miridae). Part II. Species of Orientomiris n. gen. Japanese Journal of Entomology, 65 (4), 728 - 744." type="journal article" year="1997" yearSuffix="b">Yasunaga (1997b: 729)</bibRefCitation>
recognized a close relationship between 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE69F5D5FD9D50FF" box="[404,548,1450,1475]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE69F5D5FD9D50FF" box="[404,548,1450,1475]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD97F5D4FD4250FE" box="[618,763,1451,1474]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Orientomiris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD97F5D4FD4250FE" box="[618,763,1451,1474]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Orientomiris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Later, he (1998: 63), noted superficial resemblance of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF5B1FEEB50DB" box="[151,338,1486,1511]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Neomegacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF5B1FEEB50DB" box="[151,338,1486,1511]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Neomegacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE6CF5B1FD9850DB" box="[401,545,1486,1511]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE6CF5B1FD9850DB" box="[401,545,1486,1511]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDA5F5B0FD4950DA" box="[600,752,1487,1510]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDA5F5B0FD5550DA" box="[600,748,1487,1510]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Orientomiris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Orientomiris</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF58DFBC25313" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF58DFDD65337" box="[199,623,1522,1547]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Cherot, F., Yasunaga, T. &amp; Gorczyca, J. (1999) Notes on Thai and other Oriental Miridae (Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha). The generic allocation of Megacoelum biseratense (DISTANT, 1903) [Heteroptera: Mirinae, Mirini]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 104 (1), 15 - 23." type="journal article">Chérot, Yasunaga &amp; Gorczyca (1999)</bibRefCitation>
suggested a hypothetical “ 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC63F58DFB9F5337" box="[926,1062,1522,1547]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC63F58DFB9F5337" box="[926,1062,1522,1547]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex” within the tribe 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FAA9F58DFA255337" box="[1364,1436,1522,1547]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
to group 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF01F669FE3D5313" box="[252,388,1558,1583]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF01F669FE3D5313" box="[252,388,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE6FF669FD9A5313" box="[402,547,1558,1583]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE6FF669FD9A5313" box="[402,547,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDCDF669FD525313" box="[560,747,1558,1583]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Neomegacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDCDF669FD525313" box="[560,747,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Neomegacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD04F668FC335312" box="[761,906,1559,1582]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Orientomiris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD04F668FC335312" box="[761,906,1559,1582]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Orientomiris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC3DF669FBCD5313" box="[960,1140,1558,1583]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Poppiocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC3DF669FBCD5313" box="[960,1140,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Poppiocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF645FE7F5383" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF645FDB8536F" author="Cherot" box="[199,513,1594,1619]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Cherot, F. &amp; Pauwels, O. S. G. (2000) Revision du genre Peltidopeplus Poppius, 1912, avec description d'une espece nouvelle de Papouasie et d'un genre nouveau d'Australie (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirini). Zoosystema, 22 (1), 121 - 138" type="journal article" year="2000">Chérot &amp; Pauwels (2000)</bibRefCitation>
did not compare 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD15F645FC08536F" box="[744,945,1594,1619]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Chimsunchartella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD15F645FC08536F" box="[744,945,1594,1619]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Chimsunchartella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with all members of the 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FB00F645FE00534B" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
Adelphocoris- 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF621FEA6534B" box="[151,287,1630,1655]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Creontiades</taxonomicName>
- 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FED5F621FE00534B" box="[296,441,1630,1655]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Megacoelum</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
complex as defined in the present work, but noted several similarities between 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF6FDFE9553A7" box="[151,300,1666,1691]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF6FDFE9553A7" box="[151,300,1666,1691]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE96F6FDFD8D53A7" box="[363,564,1666,1691]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Chimsunchartella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE96F6FDFD8D53A7" box="[363,564,1666,1691]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Chimsunchartella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. A hypothetical phyletic relationship between both genera is suggested by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF6AF6D9FE7B5383" author="Cherot" box="[151,450,1702,1727]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Cherot, F. &amp; Malipatil, M. B. (2003) New records of Chimsunchartella schwartzi Cherot &amp; Pauwels from Australia, with a description of the female (Heteroptera, Miridae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, N. S., 20 (2), 149 - 153." type="journal article" year="2003">Chérot &amp; Malipatil (2003)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19408FFE6FF3AF6B5FD3D52E3" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FF3AF6B5FE1E53DF" author="Rosenzweig" box="[199,423,1738,1763]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (2001) Synopsis of Palearctic genera of Mirina (Heteropter: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9 (2), 367 - 383." type="journal article" year="2001">Rosenzweig (2001)</bibRefCitation>
, in his studies on Palearctic 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD06F6B5FCFC53DF" box="[763,837,1738,1763]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
, considered a “ 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC06F6B5FB3A53DF" box="[1019,1155,1738,1763]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC06F6B5FB3A53DF" box="[1019,1155,1738,1763]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex” including the genera 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF08F691FE1A523B" box="[245,419,1774,1799]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF08F691FE1A523B" box="[245,419,1774,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE42F691FDFE523B" box="[447,583,1774,1799]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE42F691FDFE523B" box="[447,583,1774,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FD9FF691FD4B523B" box="[610,754,1774,1799]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Megacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FD9FF691FD4B523B" box="[610,754,1774,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Megacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FCF0F691FC71523B" box="[781,968,1774,1799]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Neomegacoelum" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FCF0F691FC71523B" box="[781,968,1774,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Neomegacoelum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FC1EF690FBCD523A" box="[995,1140,1775,1798]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Orientomiris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC1EF690FBCD523A" box="[995,1140,1775,1798]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Orientomiris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FB73F691FAE6523B" box="[1166,1375,1774,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF76DFEF55217" box="[151,332,1810,1835]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Poppiocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF76DFEF55217" box="[151,332,1810,1835]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Poppiocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and an “ 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE34F76DFDE75217" box="[457,606,1810,1835]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE34F76DFDE75217" box="[457,606,1810,1835]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex” including the single genus 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FBCAF76DFB755217" box="[1079,1228,1810,1835]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FBCAF76DFB755217" box="[1079,1228,1810,1835]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. He noted some resemblance between 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FE64F749FD975273" box="[409,558,1846,1871]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FE64F749FD975273" box="[409,558,1846,1871]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the west-Mediterranean genus 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FC25F749FBFC5273" box="[984,1093,1846,1871]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Thiomiris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FBAFF749FA9C5273" author="Rosenzweig" box="[1106,1317,1846,1871]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (1997) Revised classification of the Calocoris complex and related genera (Heteroptera: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6 (1 / 2), 139 - 169." type="journal article" year="1997">Rosenzweig, 1997</bibRefCitation>
— 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FABFF748FAF75273" author="Rosenzweig" box="[1346,1358,1847,1871]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (1997) Revised classification of the Calocoris complex and related genera (Heteroptera: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6 (1 / 2), 139 - 169." type="journal article" year="1997" yearSuffix="a">a</bibRefCitation>
genus remained unclassified in his system—and placed on the same unranked level as these two complexes, his 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FF6AF701FE8352AB" box="[151,314,1918,1943]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Closterotomus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FF6AF701FE8352AB" box="[151,314,1918,1943]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Closterotomus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex and his 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429408FFE6FDD9F701FD2B52AB" box="[548,658,1918,1943]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Calocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FDD9F701FD2B52AB" box="[548,658,1918,1943]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Calocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex described in more detail in 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309408FFE6FB88F701FAE552AB" author="Rosenzweig" box="[1141,1372,1918,1943]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (1997) Revised classification of the Calocoris complex and related genera (Heteroptera: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6 (1 / 2), 139 - 169." type="journal article" year="1997">Rosenzweig (1997)</bibRefCitation>
. The relationships between all these genera, groups or complexes were not tackled in Rosenzweig’s work (
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAE9F7DBFA895287" box="[1300,1328,1956,1979]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">op</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39408FFE6FAC2F7DBFAE25287" box="[1343,1371,1956,1979]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">cit</emphasis>
.) and their diagnoses not systematically provided.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF0E7FABB55CB" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
In his unpublished preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the genera of the tribe 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FBB9F0E8FB37558C" box="[1092,1166,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
, Chérot (2002) grouped in two basal clades a majority of the genera of the complex as defined here before. However, the matrix used in this cladistics analysis should be reviewed at light of recent works on the tribe, including the present one.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF17BFEAE54BB" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FF3AF17BFDDA5421" author="Carpintero" box="[199,611,260,285]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Carpintero, D. L. &amp; Cherot, F. (2002) Carvalhocoris scutellosum n. gen., n. sp., d'Argentine avec une synonymie dans le genre Volumnus Stal, 1865 de la region ethiopienne et une discussion de la monophylie de ce dernier (Heteroptera, Miridae: Mirini). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 19 (1), 39 - 55." type="journal article" year="2002">Carpintero &amp; Chérot (2002: 44–46)</bibRefCitation>
compared 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FD1BF17BFC255421" box="[742,924,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Carvalhocapsus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(under the junior homonym 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB0CF17BFA2A5421" box="[1265,1427,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Carvalhocoris</emphasis>
) with the members of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FE6CF158FDA0547C" box="[401,537,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE6CF158FDA0547C" box="[401,537,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Creontiades</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FD70F157FBC6547C" authority="Cherot, Yasunaga &amp; Gorczyca, 1999" authorityName="Cherot, Yasunaga &amp; Gorczyca" authorityYear="1999" box="[653,1151,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Lygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sensu">
sensu 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FD28F158FBC6547C" author="Cherot" box="[725,1151,295,320]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Cherot, F., Yasunaga, T. &amp; Gorczyca, J. (1999) Notes on Thai and other Oriental Miridae (Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha). The generic allocation of Megacoelum biseratense (DISTANT, 1903) [Heteroptera: Mirinae, Mirini]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 104 (1), 15 - 23." type="journal article" year="1999">Chérot, Yasunaga &amp; Gorczyca, 1999</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, also with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FAFDF158FA2C547C" box="[1280,1429,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FAFDF158FA2C547C" box="[1280,1429,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FF6AF133FEF35459" box="[151,330,332,357]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoridea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF133FEF35459" box="[151,330,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoridea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FE70F133FE6C5459" box="[397,469,332,357]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
with a swollen scutellum (obviously a non-monophyletic convenient group) and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FF6AF110FEA954B4" box="[151,272,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF110FEA954B4" box="[151,272,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF1EBFDC154C8" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
Chérot, 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FEDFF1EBFDDE5490" author="Malipatil" box="[290,615,404,429]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Cherot, F. &amp; Malipatil, M. B. (2003) New records of Chimsunchartella schwartzi Cherot &amp; Pauwels from Australia, with a description of the female (Heteroptera, Miridae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, N. S., 20 (2), 149 - 153." type="journal article" year="2003">Malipatil &amp; Schwartz (2003)</bibRefCitation>
mentioned, in a relatively indistinct way, several similarities that existed between male genitalic structures of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FDC6F1C8FD0854EC" box="[571,689,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Neopeplus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FDC6F1C8FD0854EC" box="[571,689,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Neopeplus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FD3CF1C8FCCD54EC" box="[705,884,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoridea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FD3CF1C8FCCD54EC" box="[705,884,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoridea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FC53F1C8FBC654EC" box="[942,1151,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Pleurochilophorus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC53F1C8FBC654EC" box="[942,1151,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pleurochilophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
such as paramere shape, endophallic sclerite shape and position etc.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF27FFBA957CC" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FF3AF27FFE315724" author="Yasunaga" box="[199,392,512,536]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Yasunaga T. (2011) A new mirine plant bug genus and species from Indian Sikkim, with a review of the related genera Cheilocapsidea Poppius and Cheilocapsus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae). Heteropterus Revista de Entomologia [Jordi Ribes Festschrift], 11 (2), 365 - 374." type="journal article" year="2011">Yasunaga (2011)</bibRefCitation>
assumed, without specified explicitly why, 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC6CF27EFB845724" box="[913,1085,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Vairocanamiris</emphasis>
to be most closely related to 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FF6AF25BFEFF5701" box="[151,326,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF25BFEFF5701" box="[151,326,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE78F25BFDA55701" box="[389,540,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsus</emphasis>
Kirkaldy, 1902, the similarities with some other genera of 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FB22F25BFA9F5701" box="[1247,1318,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
including 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FF6AF237FE9E5763" box="[151,295,584,607]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Orientomiris" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF237FE9E5763" box="[151,295,584,607]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Orientomiris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
being supposed superficial. For us, the similarities between 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FC2AF238FB3C575C" box="[983,1157,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC2AF238FB3C575C" box="[983,1157,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB43F238FAEC575C" box="[1214,1365,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsus</emphasis>
could also be superficial. The genus 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE12F213FD3F57B9" box="[495,646,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsus</emphasis>
differs from all members of ACMc, including 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FB64F213FAFE57B9" box="[1177,1351,620,645]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Cheilocapsidea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB64F213FAFE57B9" box="[1177,1351,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsidea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, by the wide, coreid-like, body shape, the tumid frons, the two last antennal segments significantly narrower than the first two, the shagreened pronotal disk and the dorsal pilosity. 
<collectingCountry id="F31976519409FFE7FCE4F2CBFC8157F0" box="[793,824,692,716]" name="American Samoa" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">As</collectingCountry>
suggested by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FC2AF2CAFB2C57F0" author="Yasunaga" box="[983,1173,692,717]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Yasunaga T. (2011) A new mirine plant bug genus and species from Indian Sikkim, with a review of the related genera Cheilocapsidea Poppius and Cheilocapsus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae). Heteropterus Revista de Entomologia [Jordi Ribes Festschrift], 11 (2), 365 - 374." type="journal article" year="2011">Yasunaga (2011)</bibRefCitation>
, a relationship between 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF2A8FE9757CC" box="[151,302,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Cheilocapsus</emphasis>
and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE99F2A8FE7057CC" box="[356,457,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pantilius</emphasis>
, two genera with similar habitus, seems very likely.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF283FB2656FB" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
The phallic comb of several 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FDFEF283FDC45629" box="[515,637,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FDFEF283FDC45629" box="[515,637,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species seems relatively similar to those observed in 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FB33F283FADA5629" box="[1230,1379,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB33F283FADA5629" box="[1230,1379,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The comb-shaped almost flat or spoon-like sclerite, with wide and relatively short slightly curved teeth on lateral sides is structurally the same in both genera. In 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FD86F33BFC375660" authority="Fallen, 1814" authorityName="Fallen" authorityYear="1814" box="[635,910,836,861]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FD86F33BFD4D5661" box="[635,756,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
Fallén, 1814
</taxonomicName>
, it was considered by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FB73F33BFAE85660" author="Stonedahl" box="[1166,1361,836,861]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Stonedahl, G. M. (1988) Revision of the Phytocoris Fallen (Heteroptera, Miridae) for Western North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 188 (1), 1 - 257." type="journal article" year="1988">Stonedahl (1988)</bibRefCitation>
as the apical part—termed “sclerotized process”—of larger structure subdivided at level of secondary gonopore (the “ACH” 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FF09F3F2FDCA5698" authority="Carpintero &amp; Cherot, 2008" authorityName="Carpintero &amp; Cherot" authorityYear="2008" box="[244,627,908,933]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Lygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sensu">
sensu 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FEC1F3F3FDCA5698" author="Carpintero" box="[316,627,908,933]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Carpintero, D. L. &amp; Cherot, F. (2008) Sur quelques nouveaux Phytocoris Fallen, 1814 (Heteroptera: Miridae) de l'Argentine et du Chili. I. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, N. S., 24 (3), 221 - 258." type="journal article" year="2008">Carpintero &amp; Chérot, 2008</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
) and may support the phallus in inflation. In 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FB7EF3F3FAA15699" box="[1155,1304,908,933]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB7EF3F3FAA15699" box="[1155,1304,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the combshaped sclerite is basally connected to a spicule-like sclerite, generally absent in 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FBE2F3D0FB2156F4" box="[1055,1176,943,968]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FBE2F3D0FB2156F4" box="[1055,1176,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF3AAFC0F519F" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
Presence of phallic comb could reflect relationships between the genera 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FBDFF3ABFB0E56D1" box="[1058,1207,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocoris</emphasis>
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and 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB0AF3ABFAC956D1" box="[1271,1392,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(T. Yasunaga pers. comm. dated from 
<date id="FFB010019409FFE7FDCBF385FD57512F" box="[566,750,1015,1043]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" value="2015-03-04">March 4th 2015</date>
). However, phallic structures of 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB8EF385FB54512F" box="[1139,1261,1018,1043]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
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are amazingly variable, the comb being frequently absent. The shape of metafemora of 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC28F461FB2D510B" box="[981,1172,1054,1079]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Adelphocorisella</emphasis>
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and 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB30F461FAEC510B" box="[1229,1365,1054,1079]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Creontiades</emphasis>
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could also group both genera with 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FE18F43DFDE75167" box="[485,606,1090,1115]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Phytocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE18F43DFDE75167" box="[485,606,1090,1115]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Nonetheless, all 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FCD2F43DFC115167" box="[815,936,1090,1115]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
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species do not have the same metafemoral shape. Moreover, the width of the last two antennal segments, the structure of the vertex, and the dorsal punctation differ between 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FEBDF4F5FE03519F" box="[320,442,1162,1187]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Phytocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the members of our hypothetical ACMc.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF4D0FCED50A3" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
On the basis of external morphology, the African genus 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC85F4D1FB9951FB" box="[888,1056,1198,1223]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Megacoelopsis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FBD3F4D1FB6C51FB" author="Poppius" box="[1070,1237,1198,1223]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Poppius, B. (1912) Die Miriden der Athiopischen Region. Mirina, Cylapina, Bryocorina. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, 41 (3), 1 - 203, 1 pl." type="journal article" year="1912">Poppius, 1912</bibRefCitation>
seems closer to Rosenzweig’s 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FEB9F4ADFE0A51D7" box="[324,435,1234,1259]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Calocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FEB9F4ADFE0A51D7" box="[324,435,1234,1259]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Calocoris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE03F4ADFD1951D7" box="[510,672,1234,1259]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Closterotomus</emphasis>
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complexes than to our 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FC21F4ADFA2551D7" box="[988,1436,1234,1259]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FC21F4ADFBC851D7" box="[988,1137,1234,1259]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Adelphocoris" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Adelphocoris</taxonomicName>
- 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FB87F4ADFABB51D7" box="[1146,1282,1234,1259]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Creontiades" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Creontiades</taxonomicName>
- 
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</emphasis>
complex. This would also be the case with the genera 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FCFDF487FCE35033" box="[768,858,1272,1295]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Loristes</emphasis>
Josifov &amp; Kerzhner, 1972, 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FB6AF489FABD5033" box="[1175,1284,1270,1295]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Thiomiris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FAF1F489FF76500F" author="Rosenzweig" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (1997) Revised classification of the Calocoris complex and related genera (Heteroptera: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6 (1 / 2), 139 - 169." type="journal article" year="1997">Rosenzweig, 1997</bibRefCitation>
and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FEE6F565FE7D500F" box="[283,452,1306,1331]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Taurocalocoris</emphasis>
Carapezza, 1998, as suggested by 
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FC71F565FBCC500F" author="Rosenzweig" box="[908,1141,1306,1331]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Rosenzweig, V. Ye. (2001) Synopsis of Palearctic genera of Mirina (Heteropter: Miridae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9 (2), 367 - 383." type="journal article" year="2001">Rosenzweig (2001)</bibRefCitation>
. Some other genera of “impunctate” 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FEBCF541FE32506B" box="[321,395,1342,1367]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
, such 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FE10F53FFDE6506B" box="[493,607,1344,1367]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Liocapsus</emphasis>
Poppius, 1915, 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FCC3F540FC5B506A" box="[830,994,1343,1366]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Orientocapsus</emphasis>
Yasunaga &amp; Schwartz, 2007 and 
<emphasis id="B97AEAD39409FFE7FF6AF51DFEFD5047" box="[151,324,1378,1403]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Philostephanus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9F4B309409FFE7FEB7F51DFE585047" author="Distant" box="[330,481,1378,1403]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" refString="Distant, W. L. (1909) LII. Description of Oriental Capsidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, IV, 440 - 454." type="book chapter" year="1909">Distant, 1909</bibRefCitation>
share several character states with ACMc members, but not all, differing particularly by antennal and head structures and by genitalia of both sexes.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB136C19409FFE7FF3AF5D4FD12534B" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,1655]" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">
To identify which character states are truly homologous or homoplasious and the relationships of these genera with the ACMc members and between them will require a comprehensive cladistics analysis of the tribe at generic level on a world basis. Such analysis would eventually assist in assessing the validity of ACMc of genera as a monophyletic taxon in the tribe 
<taxonomicName id="4C0E4D429409FFE7FDF1F669FDEE5313" box="[524,599,1558,1583]" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="156" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Mirini">Mirini</taxonomicName>
. However we are convinced that a clarification of the definition of each genus is an indispensable prerequisite for such an analysis, even if such analysis could modify the diagnosis and limits of some taxa studied in the present work.
</paragraph>
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