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Issue: Vol. 3545 No. 1: 9 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3545.1.2
Page range: 41–58
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 3

Review of the jumping tree bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) of Argentina and nearby areas of Brazil and Paraguay, with descriptions of nine new species

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, MRC-168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20013-7013 USA
División Entomología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "B. Rivadavia,” Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hemiptera Aristotelesia Myiomma new taxa diagnoses keys to species distribution South America

Abstract

Nine new species of jumping tree bugs, or Isometopinae, from Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil are described.  The genus Aristotelesia is revised and the two new species A. fuscata (from Brazil) and A. medialis (from Argentina) are described, and the Argentine and Paraguayan species of Myiomma are reviewed and the seven new species M. apicalis (from Paraguay), M. argentinensis (from Argentina and Paraguay), M. binotata (from Argentina), M. pallidopleura (from Argentina), M. pallipes (from Argentina), M. scutellata (from Paraguay), and M. uniformis (from Argentina) are described.  Previously published records of isometopines from Argentina are clarified.  Color photographs, illustrations of the parameres of M. argentinensis, and keys are provided to help distinguish species.

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