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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 4: 31 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.4.5
Page range: 263-278
Abstract views: 112
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A New Genus and Species of the Mirid Subfamily Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Japan, with a Key, Checklist, and New Synonymy for the Japanese Fauna

Nagasaki West High School, SSH Biology, Takenokubo 12-9, Nagasaki 852-8014, Japan
Regional fauna eastern Asia classification SEM documentation

Abstract

A unique isometopine plant bug species representing a new genus, Reometopus kijimura new genus and new species (provisionally belonging to the tribe Myiommini), is described from Okinawa Island, Japan. Paloniella parallela Yasunaga and Hayashi, 2002, is proposed to be synonymized with Isometopus hasegawai Miyamoto, 1965. The Japanese fauna of the subfamily Isometopinae is accordingly updated, and an annotated checklist and a key to genera and species are provided.

 

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