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Family Miridae - Plant Bugs


Systematics, Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Host Associations of the Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha)
By G. Cassis and Randall T. Schuh
Annual Reviews, 2012
Annual Review of Entomology Vol. 57: 377-404

Abstract

Miscellanea Miridologica (Insecta: Heteroptera)
By Michal D. Schwartz & Frédéric Chérot
Magnolia Press, 2005
Zootaxa 814: 1-24

Some new subfamily placements, new combinations, lectotype designations, name replacements, and taxonomic level changes are discussed.

Newly recognized synonyms, homonyms, and combinations in the North American Miridae (Heteroptera)
By T.J. Henry
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(3): 1121-1136, 1985

Biology of the plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae): pests, predators, opportunists
By Wheeler A.G., Jr.
Cornell University Press, 456 pp., 2001

An annotated list of the plant bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), of Kentucky
By T.J. Henry, C.V. Covell Jr., A.G. Wheeler Jr.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 113(1-2): 24-76, 2005

An annotated list of the Miridae of West Virginia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera)
By A.G. Wheeler Jr., T.J. Henry, T.L. Mason Jr.
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 109:127–159, 1983

Newly recognized Holarctic and introduced plant bugs in North America (Heteroptera: Miridae)
By M.D. Schwartz & G.G.E. Scudder
The Canadian Entomologist 130(3): 267-283, 1998
don't see the text online... hints welcome

Miridae (Heteroptera) new to Canada with some taxonomic changes
By M.D. Schwartz & G.G.E. Scudder
J. New York Entomol. Soc. 108: 248-267, 2000
Full text
List of 75 spp. new to Canada.