Abstract
A vehicle-mounted “car-net” is a rarely used technique of insect sampling. In Liberia, it was used over several consecutive months, and the first results of taxonomic analyses of Heteroptera from the by-catch are presented, namely on the mirid subfamily Isometopinae (“jumping tree bugs”). So far, no isometopine species have been known from Liberia.
New records of Isometopinae in Liberia are provided including: Isometopus slateri (Akingbohungbe), Myiomma cobbeni Akingbohungbe, M. rubra Smith, and M. rubrovenata Smith. Additional new species are described, including: Isometopus bongensis sp. nov., Paloniella garmsi sp. nov., P. erinacea sp. nov., Ptisca liberiense sp. nov., Myiomma albostiolata sp. nov., M .brunnea sp. nov., M. fuscipes sp. nov., M. goellneri sp. nov. and M. variabilis sp. nov. A new genus with one included species is similarly described as follows: Bongiella nodistylis gen. nov. et sp. nov.
References
Akingbohungbe, A.E. (1983) A review of Magnocellus (Heteroptera: Miridae) with five new species from West Africa. Systematic Entomology, 8, 249−262.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1983.tb00481.xAkingbohungbe, A.E. (1996) The Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) of Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Delar Tertiary Publishers, Ibadan, Nigeria, 170 pp.
Akingbohungbe, A.E. (2003) New species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Ivory Coast and Yemen. Journal of Natural History, 37, 2849−2862.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0022293021000007525Distant, W.L. (1904) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota, 2, 1–503.
Eyles, A.C. (1971) List of Isometopidae (Heteroptera: Cimicoidea). New Zealand Journal of Science, 14, 940−944.
Fieber, F.X. (1860) Exegesen in Hemipteren. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (9), 257−272.
Garms, R., Cheke, R.A. & Sachs, R. (1991) A temporary focus of savanna species of the Simulium damnosum complex in the forest zone of Liberia. Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 42, 181−187.
Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. (1839) Die wanzenartigen Insecten. 6 (3). In der C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 2 pp. [pp. 48−49]
Hesse, A.J. (1947) A remarkable new dimorphic Isometopid and two other new species of Hemiptera predaceous upon the red scale of citrus. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa, 10, 31−45.
McAttee, W.L. & Malloch, J.R. (1932) Notes on the genera of Isometopinae (Heteroptera). Stylops, 1, 62−70.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1932.tb01353.xNamyatova, A.A. & Cassis, G. (2016) Review of the seven new species of Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) in Australia and discussion of distribution and host plant associations of the subfamily on a worldwide basis. Austral Entomology, 55, 392−422.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12202Peck, S.B. & Cook, J. (1992) Use of “car-nets” to sample flying micro-Coleoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 124, 745−749.
https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent124745-5Poppius, B. (1915) H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Miridae, Isometopidae und Ceratocombidae (Hemiptera). Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 80A (8), 1−80. [1914]
Puton, A. (1872) I. Myiomma fieberi Put. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 4, 177.
Roberts, D.M. & Irving-Bell, R.J. (1985) Circadian flight activity of Simulium spp. (Diptera: Simuliidae) sampled with a vehicle-mounted net in central Nigeria. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 75, 23−33.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300014140Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (2000) Heteroptera of Economic Importance. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 828 pp.
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420041859Schuh, R.T. (2013) On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Version 9 updated Nov 2014. Available from: http://research.amnh.org/pbi/catalog/ (accessed 8 January 2018)
Schuh, R.T. & Slater, J.A. (1995) True bugs of the world (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): classification and natural history. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, XII + 336 pp.
Slater, J. & Schuh, T. (1969) New species of Isometopinae from South Africa (Hemiptera: Miridae). Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa, 32 (2), 351−366.
Smith, M.R. (1967) A new genus and twelve new species of Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Isometopidae) from Ghana. Bulletin Entomological Society of Nigeria, 1, 27–42.
The International Heteropterists' Society (2017) Heteroptera. Available from: http://ihs.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/17 (accessed 14 June 2017)
Wachmann, E., Melber, A. & Deckert, J. (2006) Wanzen. Band 1. Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha, Tingidae, Anthocoridae, Cimicidae, Reduviidae. Goecke & Evers, Keltern, 264 pp.