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Subfamily Mirinae


First record of the Palearctic plant bug Rhabdomiris striatellus (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) in North America
By Henry T.J.
Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 119: 575‒579, 2017

Neocapsus cuneatus Distant in Arizona and Texas, with a variety described from Mississippi and North Carolina (Heterop. Miridae)
By Knight, H.H.
Entomological News 6: 78-79., 1925
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Knight, H.H. (1925) Neocapsus cuneatus Distant in Arizona and Texas, with a variety described from Mississippi and North Carolina (Heteropt. Miridae). Entomological News 6: 78-79.

Porpomiris curtulus (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae), a plant bug specialist on Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.; Poaceae)...
By Wheeler A.G. Jr., Schwartz M.D.
Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 120: 926‒937, 2018
Full title: Porpomiris curtulus (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae), a plant bug specialist on Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.; Poaceae): new distribution records, host-plant range, and seasonality
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Tropidosteptes pacificus (Van Duzee, 1921), another Nearctic mirid in Europe (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae)
By Berend Aukema, Michael D.Schwartz, Kees Den Bieman,
Zootaxa 2135: 65 – 68, 2009

Descriptions of nine new species of Dichrooscytus from North America
By Kelton, Leonard A.
Kelton, L. A., 1972. Descriptions of nine new species of Dichrooscytus from North America (Heteroptera: Miridae). Canadian Entomologist 104: 1457-1464

A revision of the black grass bug genus Irbisia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae)
By M.D. Schwartz
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 92: 193-306, 1984
the only source on this genus

Identity of Lygus buchanani Poppius (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini): a deletion from the New Zealand fauna
By Schwartz M.D., Eyles A.C.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology 26: 221--227, 1999

Four new species of Bolteria, with a key to North American species and a note on the species found in Canada
By Kelton, Leonard A.
The Entomological Society of Canada, 1972
Canadian Entomologist Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 627-640

Provides the key to North American species of Bolteria as well as descriptions and illustrations of some species.