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Miridae

Description

Family MIRIDAE

Lopidea nigridea serica Knight

Reported from Alaska by Maw et al. (2000), based on 1♀, with data Tok, 22.vii.1982 (L.A. Kelton) [CNC]. Dr. M.D. Schwartz has determined that this specimen is actually L. dakota Knight (see above). Hence, Lopidea nigridea serica should be deleted from the list of Alaska Heteroptera.

Trigonotylus americanus Carvalho

Recorded from Hope by Scudder (1997). However, a male specimen with data AK, Hope, Kenai Pen., 15.vii.1951 (W.J. Brown) [CNC] has recently been dissected by Dr. M.D. Schwartz and determined as T. viridis (Provancher). A female with the same data is evidently T. caelestialium (Kirkaldy). Hence, T. americanus should be removed from the list of Alaska Heteroptera.

Notes

Published as part of Scudder, G. G. E. & Sikes, D. S., 2014, Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): new records, associated data, and deletions, pp. 373-381 in Zootaxa 3852 (3) on page 380, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/230536

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Biodiversity

Family
Miridae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Maw, H. E. L., Foottit, R. G., Hamilton, K. G. A. & Scudder, G. G. E. (2000) Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 220 pp.
  • Scudder, G. G. E. (1997) True bugs (Heteroptera) of the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. and Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 241 - 336.