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Item Catalog and bibliography of Leptopodomorpha (Heteroptera). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 185 article 3([New York] : American Museum of Natural History, 1987) Schuh, Randall T.; Galil, Bella.; Polhemus, John T."A taxonomic catalog for the Leptopodomorpha is presented. The included families with their respective numbers of genera and species are as follows: Aepophilidae (1, 1), Leptopodidae (7, 28), Omaniidae (2, 4), and Saldidae (25, 264). Leotichius Distant, previously given family status, is included in the Leptopodidae. Homonyms are recorded but no nomenclatorial or taxonomic changes are made. Literature treated ranges from 1758 to 1986. Included is an annotated bibliography of about 650 cataloged references as well as a shorter list of uncataloged references"--P. 246.Item High resolution images for 'Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta, Hemiptera, Miridae, Phylinae, Cremnorrhinini). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 401)'(American Museum of Natural History., 2016-04-22) Schuh, Randall T.; Schwartz, Michael D.High resolution images for 'Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta, Hemiptera, Miridae, Phylinae, Cremnorrhinini). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 401)' - http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6649Item Homonymy, synonymy, and new combinations in the Miridae (Heteroptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 3137(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1995) Kerzhner, I. M.; Schuh, Randall T.Item Morphologically novel members of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus Hahn found in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae, Pilophorini). (American Museum novitates, no. 3768)(American Museum of Natural History., 2013-02-15) Yasunaga, Tomohide, 1963-; Schuh, Randall T.Morphologically novel species of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus Hahn from Thailand are reviewed, with photographic images of live individuals. Three species, Pilophorus barbiger, P. giraffoides, and P. portentosus, are described as new, in addition to two known Thai species, P. maculatus (Schuh) and P. pleiku (Schuh), which are also diagnosed. The female of P. pleiku is reported for the first time. The biology and immature forms are documented for P. pleiku and P. barbiger, which were observed to be associated with ants on the rubiaceous broadleaf, Gardenia sootepensis Hutch. The systematic position of such morphologically novel species is discussed. Pilophorus palawanus (Schuh) is newly recorded from Singapore.Item Myrmecophyes oregonensis, a new species of Halticini (Hemiptera, Miridae) from the western United States. American Museum novitates ; no. 2697(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1980) Schuh, Randall T.; Lattin, John D."Myrmecophyes oregonensis (Hemiptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae, Halticini) is described as new from central and south central Oregon. This is the first record of the genus from the Western Hemisphere. Information is provided on the male and female genitalia, femoral trichobothria, and pretarsus. This saltatorial antlike species apparently breeds on the native perennial bunch grass Agropyron spicatum"--P. [1].Item Myrtaceae-feeding Phylinae (Hemiptera, Miridae) from Australia : description and analysis of phylogenetic and host relationships for a monophyletic assemblage of three new genera. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 344)(American Museum of Natural History., 2010) Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane.Three new genera and 25 new species of Myrtaceae-feeding Phylinae are described from Australia. A cladistic analysis of a broader cross section of Australian Phylinae indicates that these taxa all belong to a monophyletic group, on the basis of pretarsal and male genitalic structures. Line drawings are used to present information of male and female genitalic structures; scanning electron micrographs illustrate pretarsal, genitalic, and other morphology. Color digital habitus images are presented for the males and females of all species. Digital images from the field and of pressed specimens are presented for a broad cross section of host plants. The newly described taxa represent a portion of the species of Australian Phylinae known to feed on the Myrtaceae; the remaining Myrtaceae-feeding species belong to other lineages and are therefore excluded from this monograph. Twenty-three of the species are recorded only from southwestern Western Australia; two species are recorded from southeastern South Australia. All species breed on members of the subfamily Myrtoideae, tribes Chamelaucieae and Melaleuceae.Item Natural history and systematics of arthropod symbionts (Araneae, Hemiptera, Diptera) inhabiting webs of the spider Tengella radiata (Araneae, Tengellidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3065(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1993) Eberhard, William G.; Platnick, Norman I.; Schuh, Randall T.Item New genera and species of Myrtaceae-feeding Phylinae from Australia, and the description of a new species of Restiophylus (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 424)(American Museum of Natural History., 2018-10-31) Schwartz, Michael D.; Weirauch, Christiane.; Schuh, Randall T.Six new genera of Australian Phylinae are described on the basis of existing collections. The tribe Exaeretini--represented by the two new genera Eucalyptophylus (two new species) and Melaleucaphylus (18 new species)--is recognized for the first time as occurring in Australia. Nine new taxa of Semiini, subtribe Exocarpocorina, are proposed: Four new genera, Calytriphylus, Melaleucacoris, Teddus (each monotypic), and Leptospermia (two new species), and four new species placed in Ancoraphylus Weirauch, 2007 (one species), Xiphoidellus Weirauch and Schuh, 2011 (one species), and Xiphoides Eyles and Schuh, 2003 (two species). Based on specimen data almost all the new taxa are associated with Myrtaceae plant hosts in the tribes Chamelaucieae, Eucalypteae, Leptospermeae, and Melaleuceae. A new species of Restiophylus Leon and Weirauch, 2016, taken in coastal New South Wales and perhaps associated with Leptocarpus tenax (Restionaceae), represents the first record for this genus beyond the southwest coast of Western Australia. Documentation is provided in the form of diagnoses and descriptions of all genera and species, color habitus images of males (and females when available) of all species, distributional maps, color images of male genitalic structures of all species, female genitalic structures in most species, and scanning electron micrographs of representative morphology of some taxa. Host-plant information is provided for most species, along with representative images of hosts and habitats. New distribution records for Xiphoidellus dumosus Weirauch and Schuh, 2011, and scanning micrographs of the pretarsus for Scholtzicoris linnavuorii Schuh, 2016 are provided.Item New genera and species of Plokiophilidae from Australia, Fiji, and Southeast Asia, with a revised classification of the family (Insecta, Heteroptera, Cimicoidea). (American Museum novitates, no. 3825)(American Museum of Natural History., 2015-02-24) Schuh, Randall T.; Štys, Pavel.; Cassis, G.; Lehnert, Margaret.; Swanson, Dustin.; Bruce, Terri.Monteithophila queenslandana, new genus and new species, is described from Queensland, Australia, and represents the first record of the family Plokiophilidae from the continent. Morphology of the male genitalia is similar to that found in Heissophila Schuh from Thailand and therefore the traumatic insemination as found in other members of the family is hypothesized to be absent in Monteithophila. The female of an apparently congeneric taxon from Fiji is described as Monteithophila fijiensis. Paraplokiophiloides schwendingeri, new genus and new species, is described from Thailand. Female genitalic morphology in the Plokiophilidae is documented with laser confocal microscopy. A revised classification of the Plokiophilidae is proposed in order to establish congruence between observed morphological characters and the recognized higher-taxonomic groupings. The new subfamily Heissophilinae is erected to include Heissophila, Moneithophila, and the Baltic amber fossil Pavlostysia Popov. The concept of Plokiophilinae is revised to include all taxa with traumatic insemination. The tribe Lipokophilini is erected to contain the Recent genus Lipokophila Štys. A newly delimited Plokiophilini includes the subtribes Embiophilina and Plokiophilina; Paraplokiophiloides is placed in the Embiophilina based on the presence of fore- and mesofemoral spines. Defining characters of the Plokiophilidae are discussed and a key to the genera is included.Item New genera, new species, new synonyms, and new combinations in North America and Caribbean Phylinae (Heteroptera, Miridae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3436(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 2004) Schuh, Randall T.; Schwartz, Michael D.Adenostomocoris, new genus, is described to accommodate Maurodactylus semiustus Van Duzee and Adenostomocoris pintoi, new species, both occurring only on Adenostoma spp. (Rosaceae) in southern California and adjacent Mexico. Arctostaphylocoris, new genus, is described to accommodate Chlamydatus manzanitae Knight and Arctostaphylocoris arizonensis, new species, both of which breed on Arctostaphylos spp. (Ericaceae) in the far western United States. Aurantiocoris, new genus, is described to accommodate Sthenarus cuneotinctus Van Duzee and Aurantiocoris purshiae, new species, recorded from Arctostaphylos spp. (Ericaceae) and Purshia sp. (Rosaceae), respectively, from far western North America. Gonoporomiris hispaniolae, new species, is described from the Dominican Republic. Guentherocoris, new genus, is described to accommodate Psallus atribibialis Knight, which breeds on Acacia spp. (Fabaceae) in the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Megalopsallus ellae, new species, is described as occurring on Ephedra sp. (Ephedrales: Ephedraceae) in the Imperial Valley of southern California. Oligotylus ribes Schuh, 2000, is treated as a junior synonym of Oligotylus pluto (Van Duzee, 1917), new combination. Pruneocoris stonedahli, new genus and new species, is described as occurring on Prunus spp. (Rosaceae) in California and Nevada. Vanduzeephylus, new genus, is described to accommodate Reuteroscopus falcatus Van Duzee, known to breed on a variety of deciduous trees in western North America.Item Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta, Hemiptera, Miridae, Phylinae, Cremnorrhinini). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 401)(American Museum of Natural History., 2016-04-22) Schuh, Randall T.; Schwartz, Michael D.The tribe Cremnorrhinini, subtribe Cremnorrhinina, is recognized for the first time as occurring in Australia. Existing collections allow for the description of the following 19 new genera within which 82 new species of the group are placed: Adunatiphylus, Asterophylus, Austroplagiognathus, Bifidostylus, Dicyphylus, Eremotylus, Grandivesica, Gyrophallus, Halophylus, Lepidophylus, Maculiphylus, Monospiniphallus, Myoporophylus, Myrtophylus, Omnivoriphylus, Proteophylus, Pulvillophylus, Spinivesica, and Telophylus. Documentation is provided in the form of a subtribal diagnosis, key to genera, diagnoses and descriptions of all genera and species, color habitus images of males (and females where available) of all species, distributional maps, illustrations of male genitalic structures, images of the endosoma of all species and female genitalic structures in representative species, and scanning electron micrographs of representative morphology within the group based on a sample of nine genera. Host-plant information is provided for most species, along with representative images of hosts and habitats. Available data show that a preponderance of species are associated with the genus Eremophila (Scrophulariaceae), but with additional lineages associated with the plant groups Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae), Myrtaceae, and Proteaceae, among others in much smaller numbers.Item Old World Pilophorini : descriptions of nine new species with additional synonymic and taxonomic changes (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). American Museum novitates ; ; no. 2945.(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1989) Schuh, Randall T.Item Pretarsal structure in the Miridae (Hemiptera), with a cladistic analysis of relationships within the family. American Museum novitates ; no. 2601(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1976) Schuh, Randall T."Through the use of scanning electron and light microscopy pretarsal structure is reviewed briefly for the Cimicomorpha and in detail for the Miridae. The following new or previously used terms describe tarsal and pretarsal structures in the Miridae: tarsal guard seta, unguitractor plate, basal claw spicules, claw hair, pulvillus, claw (with inner, outer, and ventral surfaces), setiform parempodium, lamellate parempodium, and pseudopulvillus. All pretarsal types found in the Miridae are illustrated with photomicrographs. The Bryocorinae and Phylinae are examined in greatest detail because of previously limited information on the former group and the heterogeneous nature of pretarsal structure in the latter. 'Tricobothrial maps' are presented for Psallops and for members of the bryocorine genera Bunsua, Felisacus, Monalocoris, Palaucoris, and Rhodocoris. A list of taxa examined is given. The phylogenetic implications of pretarsal and other structural features in the Miridae are investigated through the use of cladistic analysis. Relationships to the tribal and subtribal level are presented as cladograms. A classification derived by the method of 'phylogenetic sequencing' is presented and compared with classifications of previous authors, including Wagner, Leston, and Schuh, whose dendrograms are redrawn to facilitate direct comparison with those of the present paper. The following classificatory conclusions and changes herein are: the Isometopinae is shown as the sister group of all other Miridae; Psallops is given subfamily rank; the Orthotylinae of authors is recognized as a tribe within the Phylinae; the Deraeocorinae of authors is recognized as a tribe within the Mirinae; the Bryocorinae is redefined so as to include the Dicyphinae of authors. Within the Bryocorinae the tribe Eccritotarsini is recognized to include the Bryocorini sensu Carvalho (in part), as well as the Palaucorinae of Carvalho (including Pseudopalaucoris Ghauri); the Bryocorini of Carvalho is redefined to include only Bryocoris and its close relatives; and, the Monaloniini and Odoniellini combined are recognized as the sister group of the Dicyphina and given coordinate subtribal status"--P. [1].Item Redescription of Beamerella Knight and Hambletoniola Carvalho and included species (Hemiptera, Miridae), with a review of their relationships. American Museum novitates ; no. 2689(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1979) Henry, Thomas J.; Schuh, Randall T."Larinocerus Froeschner is synonymized with Beamerella Knight. Beamerella and its two included species personatus Knight and balius Froeschner are redescribed as are Hambletoniola Carvalho and its single included species antennata Carvalho. A key to included genera and species as well as illustrations of the male and female genitalia, trichobothria, and pretarsal structures are provided. An asymmetrical 'lateral tube' is newly described for the female ganitalia of Beamerella and Hambletoniola; its occurrence is documented for some other Phylini. The interrelationships of the three taxa and their relationship to other Phylini are discussed"--P. [1].Item A remarkable new genus and new species of the plant bug (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae), inhabiting psyllid leaf margin roll gall on Indian banyan, Ficus benghalensis. (American Museum novitates, no. 3839)(American Museum of Natural History., 2015-10-07) Yasunaga, Tomohide, 1963-; Schuh, Randall T.; Janakiraman, Poorani.; Cassis, G.A new genus and new species of the plant bug, Chimairacoris lakshmiae Yasunaga, Schuh, and Cassis are described from Bangalore, India. This morphologically and ecologically specialized mirid belongs to the subfamily Phylinae on the basis of genitalic structures and is currently considered best placed in the subtribe Oncotylina of the tribe Phylini. Its morphological convergence with termatophyline mirids and placement within the Phylinae are discussed. It is associated with psyllid leaf galls on Indian banyan, Ficus benghalensis. The gall-producing psyllid, Trioza sp., and a mealybug, Phenacoccus parvus, are confirmed as prey of this unique mirid. A similar phenomenon observed in some Montandoniola spp. (Anthocoridae) and Fingulus species (Miridae: Deraeocorinae), which are associated with thrips species of the genus Gynaikothrips (Thysanoptera: Tubulifera) on Ficus microcarpa, is also documented.Item Review of North American Chlamydatus Curtis species, with new synonymy and the description of two new species (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3471(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 2005) Schuh, Randall T.; Schwartz, Michael D.The species of Chlamydatus Curtis occurring in North America are reviewed. Chlamydatus californicus and Chlamydatus keltoni are described as new. The following synonymies are proposed: Chlamydatus arcuatus Knight and Chlamydatus auratus Kelton = Chlamydatus pulicarius (Fallén); Chlamydatus knighti Kelton = Chlamydatus schuhi Knight; and, Chlamydatus fulvipes Knight = Chlamydatus pullus (Reuter). Revised diagnoses, digital habitus illustrations, illustrations of male genitalia and legs, scanning micrographs of diagnostic features, and new distributional records are provided. A new key to the North American species is offered to facilitate identification.Item A revised classification of the Phylinae (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae) : arguments for the placement of genera. (American Museum novitates, no. 3785)(American Museum of Natural History., 2013-10-23) Schuh, Randall T.; Menard, Katrina L.As a companion to the tribal-level phylogenetic analysis of Phylinae by Menard, Schuh, and Woolley (2013), a comprehensive generic classification of the subfamily is presented. Names used in the work of Menard et al. (2013) at the tribal/subtribal levels are documented in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999). The new tribal-level names Coatonocapsina, Decomiini, Exocarpocorini, Keltoniina, and Tuxedoina are introduced; the long unused or seldom-used tribal-level names Cremnorrhini Reuter, 1883, Exaeretina Puton, 1975, Nasocorini Reuter, 1883, Oncotylina Douglas and Scott, 1865, and Semiini Knight, 1923, are used and rediagnosed; Phylini Douglas and Scott, 1865, is given a more narrow conception than in previous classifications and the subtribe Phylina is recognized; Pilophorini Douglas and Scott, 1865, is conceived more broadly to include Lasiolabops Poppius and Dilatops Weirauch; Auricillocorini Schuh, 1984, is treated as a junior synonym of Hallodapini Van Duzee; and Pronotocrepini Knight, 1929, is treated as a junior synonym of Cremnorrhina, Reuter, 1883. Comments are made on some of the genera included in the analyses of Menard et al. (2013) and arguments are presented for the placement of all remaining genera of Phylinae, some of which are placed as incertae sedis--particularly within Phylina--because of insufficient evidence to place them with confidence in any currently recognized tribe/subtribe. Lapazphylus Carvalho and Costa, 1992, is treated as a junior synonym of Nicholia Knight, 1929; Schuhistes Menard, 2010, is treated as a junior synonym of Parasciodema Poppius, 1914; Linacoris Carvalho, 1983, is transferred from the Orthotylinae to Phylinae, Hallodapini; and the status of Parapsallus Wagner, 1952, is revised.Item Revision and analysis of Pseudosaldula Cobben (Insecta, Hemiptera, Saldidae) : a group with a classic Andean distribution. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 323)(2009) Schuh, Randall T.; Polhemus, John T.The genus Pseudosaldula Cobben, which is restricted to the Andean Subregion of South America, is revised. Fourteen valid species are recognized, nine of them being described as new and 10 previously published names are treated as junior synonyms based on the examination of approximately 3500 specimens from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. All taxa are described or redescribed. A key to the species is provided. Color habitus illustrations, distributional maps, and detailed measurements are provided for all species. Scanning electron micrographs of the vestiture, parameres, parandria, face, and pretarsus are provided for representative species, as are color views of the face and the nymphs. The concept of a postclypeus in the Saldidae is questioned and the term transverse swelling, as coined by Parsons, is applied in discussing distinctive aspects of facial morphology in Pseudosaldula. A previously unreported, presumably glandular, pore is documented on the parameres in the Saldinae in the form of a cavernous pit with internal digitiform processes. A phylogenetic analysis based on morphological character data documents the monophyly of Pseudosaldula. Characters treated as synapomorphic for Pseudosaldula are five cells in the membrane of the forewing, the incomplete connection of the transverse swelling across the posterior margin of the clypeus, and the straight connection across the posterior margin of the parandria; nymphal coloration is also distinctive, although treated as ambiguous because this character was not scored for all species. DNA sequence data from the 16S rDNA region of the mitochondrion and H3 nuclear region were acquired for 13 Pseudosaldula spp. and five outgroup taxa. The combined analysis of morphological and sequence data consistently treated Pseudosaldula as paraphyletic. These results are interpreted as the result of inadequate sampling of both taxa and gene regions, in light of the fact that the patterns of distribution become transpacific, as opposed to a monophyletic group in the Andean Region. Not unexpectedly, several morphological characters documenting the monophyly of Pseudosaldula show greater homoplasy in the combined analysis than when analyzing morphological data alone. Therefore, the results of the morphological cladistic analysis are further used to examine distributional patterns in the group. Five areas of endemism are recognized: northern Andes, northern Peru, Puna, central Chile, and subantarctic; the boundaries of these areas show substantial correspondence with those proposed for other groups of insects.Item Revision of Aphelonotus Uhler (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Pachynomidae), with description of six new species and documentation of nymphal morphology for three species. (American Museum novitates, no. 3829)(American Museum of Natural History., 2015-04-08) Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane.; Grillo, Horacio.Aphelonotus Uhler is revised with the recognition of 14 species, six of them described as new: A, alvarengai, A. elongatus, A. minutus, A. paramedius, A. taino, and A. xenos. Aphelonotus brevirostris Carayon and Villiers is treated as a junior synonym of A. fraterculus Harris. Color habitus images and illustrations of the male parameres are provided for all species; morphology for the adult female of A. major is documented through the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Measurements of male and female specimens are presented and analyzed, documenting a strong correlation between total length and the length of the proximal portion of the antennal pedicel and the consequent utility of either of these measurements in species discrimination. Nymphs are described for the first time for the genus, for the species A. fraterculus, A. major, and A. xenos; their morphology is documented by SEM and color images. Distributional maps show a pattern of occurrence restricted primarily to the New World tropics, including Cuba, with a single species known from the Congo Basin and East Africa. All specimens were provided with unique specimen identifiers and their associated data are now available on the Internet.Item Revision of Europiella Reuter in North America, with the description of a new genus (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3463(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 2004) Schuh, Randall T.The New World species of Europiella Reuter are revised. Three species from western North America are described as new. A key and illustrations of the habitus and male genitalia for the 13 recognized Nearctic species are provided. Scanning electron micrographs are given for structural details of four species. Detailed locality and host data are offered for all species. Europiella albipubescens Knight, 1968 is transferred to Knightopiella, new genus. Europiella lividella (Kerzhner, 1979) is returned to Plagiognathus Fieber.