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Tribe Mirini


New species of Neoborus and Xenoborus (Hemiptera, Miridae)
By Knight, H. H.
Knight, H. H., 1929D. New species of Neoborus and Xenoborus (Hemiptera, Miridae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 24: 1--11.

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.

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.