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Family Miridae - Plant Bugs

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New genera, new species, and new combinations in western Nearctic Phylini (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae)
By Weirauch, Christiane
American Museum of Natural History, 2006
American Museum Novitates No. 3521

Provides the key, the description, and the images of six new genera Galbinocoris, Hamatophylus, Insulaphylus, Maculamiris, Quernocoris, and Vesperocoris. The author transferred Plagiognathus guttulosus (Reuter, 1876) and Plagiognathus paddocki Knight, 1964 to the genera Hamatophylus and Vesperocoris, respectively.

Available online at AMNH Research Library.

New Genera and Species of Oak-Associated Phylini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Western North America
By Weirauch, Christiane
American Museum of Natural History, 2006
American Museum Novitates No. 3522

Provides the key, the description, and the images of six new genera Crassomiris, Phallospinophylus, Quercophylus, Pygovepres, Rubellomiris, and Rubeospineus. The author transferred Psallus vaccinicola Knight, 1930 to the genus Pygovepres.

Available online at AMNH Research Library.

Reevaluation of the plant bug genus Icodema, with descriptions of two new genera to accomodate five Nearctic species
By Henry, Thomas J.
the New York Entomological Society, 1999
Full Title: Reevaluation of the plant bug genus Icodema, with descriptions of two new genera to accomodate five Nearctic species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 107: pp. 181-203

Provides key, description, photos and illustration of the genera Americodema and Occidentodema.

Revision of the New World Pilophorini (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). Bulletin of the AMNH v. 187, article 2
By Schuh, Randall T. & Schwartz, Michael D.
American Museum of Natural History, 1988
Covers almost all New World speices in Pilophorini. Key to three New World Pilophorini genera, Alepidiella, Sthenaridea, and Pilophorus, key to species of each genus, and description of each species along with photos and pictures.

Available online at AMNH Research Library.

True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History
By Randall T. Schuh & James Alexander Slater. 1995.
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York., 1995
Schuh, R.T. and J.A. Slater. 1995. True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. xii + 336 pp.

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Heteroptera of Economic Importance
By Carl W. Schaefer, and Antonio Ricardo Panizzi
CRC Press, 2000

Heteroptera of Eastern North America
By W.S. Blatchley
The Nature Publishing Company, 1926
Great resource for true bugs of Eastern North America, although sorely out of date.

Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Vol. 2.
By Van Duzee, E.P. 1917.
University of California Press, Berkeley., 1917
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Good source for distribution and literature info.

Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Vol. 2. University of California Press, Berkeley. i-xiv + 902 pp.

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