Myiomma Puton 1872
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India.
- 2. Département de l'Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, BE- 5030, Belgium. frederic. cherot @ spw. wallonie. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7918 - 7012
- 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c / o National Museum of Natural History, MRC- 168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7013 USA.
Description
Myiomma Puton, 1872
Myiomma Puton, 1872: 177 (as new genus); Schuh 1995: 12–15 (catalogue); Akingbohungbe 1996: 121–166 (diagnosis, key and review of species of Africa, Europe and Middle East); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 6 (catalogue); Schuh: 2002–2013 (online catalogue); Henry & Carpintero 2012: 46 (diagnosis, key and review of species of Argentina and Paraguay).
Type species: Myiomma fieberi Puton, 1872 from France, by monotypy.
Heidemannia Uhler, 1891: 119 (as new genus). Synonymized by Horváth, 1908: 9; confirmed by Henry 1979: 553.
Type species: Heidemannia cixiiformis Uhler, 1891 from the U.S., by monotypy.
Paramyiomma Carvalho, 1951: 38 (as new genus). Synonymized by Smith, 1967: 41.
Type species: Paramyiomma landsburyi Carvalho, 1951 from India, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Recognised by the elongate to elongate-oval body, the large rounded head, the eyes often contiguous or separated medially (in frontal view) by a space near the diameter of an ocellus; the four to six bristle-like setae on the hind margin of each eye; the long labium extending to the middle of the abdomen or beyond; the cylindrical antennal segment II, slightly thicker and more pubescent in males than females; the punctate, trapeziform pronotum with indistinct calli; the translucent, white to dark brown or black hemelytra, often with white markings; and the saltatorial hind femora (summarized from Henry & Carpintero 2012).
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Old World (southern Europe; Africa: Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda; Middle-East: Yemen; Asia: China, India, Indonesia: Sulawesi, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Taiwan) and New World (North America: United States; Central America: Mexico, Panama; South America: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Surinam).
Five species are known from India.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Puton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Myiomma
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myiomma Puton, 1872 sec. Yeshwanth, Chérot & Henry, 2021
References
- Puton, A. (1872) [Diagnoses d'especes nouvelles d'Hemipteres]. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 1 (44), 177.
- Akingbohungbe, A. E. (1996) The Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) of Africa, Europe and Middle East. Delar Tertiary Publisher, Ibadan, 174 pp
- Kerzhner, I. M. & Josifov, M. (1999) Miridae Hahn, 1888. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, C. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3. Cimicomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 1 - 576
- Henry, T. J. & Carpintero, D. L. (2012) Review of the jumping tree bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) of Argentina and nearby areas of Brazil and Paraguay, with descriptions of nine new species. Zootaxa, 3545 (1), 41 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3545.1.2
- Henry, T. J. (1979) Review of the New World species of Myiomma with descriptions of eight new species (Hemiptera: Miridae: Isometopinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 81, 552 - 569.
- Carvalho, J. C. M. (1951) New genera and species of Isometopinae in the collection of the British Museum of Natural History (Hemiptera). Anais da Academia Brasilerira de Ciencias, 23 (4), 381 - 391. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654138
- Smith, M. R. (1967) A new genus and twelve new species of Isometopini (Hemiptera: Isometopidae) from Ghana. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Nigeria, 1, 27 - 42.