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Genus Stenodema


Synopsis of the Nearctic species of Stenodema Laporte, and description of a new species from western Canada (Hemiptera: Miridae)
By Kelton, Leonard A.
The Entomological Society of Canada, 1961
Canadian Entomologist Vol. 93, No. 6, pp. 450--455

Provides the key and the descriptions of North American Stenodema species.

Kelton stated S. virens does not occur in North America, and proposed S. dorsalis as nomen oblitum.

Revision of the Stenodemini with a review of the included genera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae)
By Michael D. Schwartz
Entomological Society of Washington, 2008
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington,110(4):1111-1201.

A review of the late season Stenodemini of southwest North America, and a description of the new genus Caracoris from Brazil
By Michael D. Schwartz
American Museum of Natural History, 1989
American Museum Novitates 2955

Review of Stenodema generic group in Stenodemini. The new genus Autumnimiris as well as Chaetofoveolocoris and Litomiris is described.

Available online at PBI.

New and noteworthy forms of North American Miridae (Hemip.)
By Knight, H. H.
Entomological News, 1917
Knight, H. H., 1917. New and noteworthy forms of North American Miridae (Hemip.). Entomological News 28: 3-8.

Descriptions of a new genus and eleven new species of North American Miridae (Hemiptera)
By Knight, H. H.
The Canadian Entomologist, 1925
Knight, H. H., 1925. Descriptions of a new genus and eleven new species of North American Miridae (Hemiptera). Canadian Entomologist 57: 89--97.

Myrmecomorphic Miridae on mistletoe: Phoradendrepulus myrmecomorphus, n. gen., n. sp., & redescr. of Pilophoropsis brachypterus
By Polhemus, D. A. and Polhemus, J. T.
Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1985
Polhemus, D. A. and J. T. Polhemus. 1985
Myrmecomorphic Miridae (Hemiptera) on mistletoe: Phoradendrepulus myrmecomorphus, n. gen., n. sp., and a redescription of Pilophoropsis brachypterus Poppius
Pan-Pacific Entomologist 61(1):26-31

Descriptions of thirty new species and two new genera of North American Miridae (Hemiptera)
By Knight, H. H.
Knight, H. H., 1925A. Descriptions of thirty new species and two new genera of North American Miridae (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 20: 33--58.

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New genera and species of North American Miridae (Hemiptera)
By H. H. Knight
Iowa State College Journal of Science 33(4):421-426, 1959
Knight, H. H. 1959. New genera and species of North American Miridae (Hemiptera). Iowa State College Journal of Science 33(4):421-426

Description of Anapus americanus and Chlamydatus ruficornis, and the genera Ballella and Beamerella.