Biology:Orthops

Short description: Genus of true bugs

Orthops
Orthops basalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Tribe:	Mirini
Genus:	Orthops Fieber, 1858
Subgenera and species
Orthops Montanorthops

Orthops is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are at least 30 described species in Orthops.

Orthops kalmii

Species

These 35 species belong to the genus Orthops:

• Orthops abessinicus (Reuter, 1903) ^{c g}
• Orthops acaciae (Lindberg, 1958) ^{c g}
• Orthops alpicola (Poppius, 1910) ^{c g}
• Orthops basalis (A. Costa, 1853) ^{c g}
• Orthops brevicornis (Linnavuori, 1973) ^{c g}
• Orthops campestris (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{c g}
• Orthops daidalos Linnavuori, 1974 ^{c g}
• Orthops ferrugineus (Reuter, 1906) ^{c g}
• Orthops forelii Fieber, 1858 ^{c g}
• Orthops ghaurii Zheng, 2004 ^{c g}
• Orthops kalmii (Fieber, 1858) ^{i c g}
• Orthops lavandulae (Lindberg, 1958) ^{c g}
• Orthops lugubris (Poppius, 1914) ^{c g}
• Orthops meruensis (Poppius, 1910) ^{c g}
• Orthops modestus (Linnavuori, 1973) ^{c g}
• Orthops montanus (Schilling, 1837) ^{c g}
• Orthops mutabilis (Buchanan-White, 1878) ^{c g}
• Orthops mutans (Stal, 1858) ^{c g}
• Orthops nigriscutum (Poppius, 1912) ^{c g}
• Orthops nigropunctatus (Poppius, 1912) ^{c g}
• Orthops palus (T. Taylor, 1947) ^{c g}
• Orthops pilosulus Jakovlev, 1877 ^{c g}
• Orthops podocarpi Linnavuori, 1975 ^{c g}
• Orthops polydeukes Linnavuori, 1974 ^{c g}
• Orthops qualis (Distant, 1909) ^{c g}
• Orthops sangvinolentus (Reuter, 1879) ^{c g}
• Orthops santaluciae (Lindberg, 1958) ^{c g}
• Orthops scutellatus Uhler, 1877 ^{i c g b} (carrot plant bug)
• Orthops sjostedti (Poppius, 1910) ^{c g}
• Orthops suturellus (Poppius, 1910) ^c
• Orthops tessulatus Linnavuori, 1975 ^{c g}
• Orthops unguicularis (Linnavuori, 1973) ^{c g}
• Orthops versicoloreus Linnavuori, 1975 ^{c g}
• Orthops v-flavum (Reuter, 1907) ^{c g}
• Orthops vitticeps (Reuter, 1906) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1926). Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6871. 
• Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. 1988. ISBN 978-0-916846-44-2. 
• Kerzhner, I.M.; Josifov, M. (1999). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 3: Cimicimorpha II: Miridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-19-1. 
• Schuh, Randall T.; Cassis, Gerasimos; Guilbert, Eric (2006). "Description of the first recent macropterous species of Vianaidinae (Heteroptera: Tingidae) with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the family within the Cimicomorpha". Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114 (1–2): 38–53. doi:10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[38:DOTFRM2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0028-7199. 
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology 34 (1): 15–48. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. ISSN 1365-3113. 
• Walker, Francis (1871). Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9254. 
• Weirauch, Christiane; Seltmann, Katja C.; Schuh, Randall T.; Schwartz, Michael D. et al. (2017). "Areas of endemism in the Nearctic: a case study of 1339 species of Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera) and their plant hosts". Cladistics 33 (3): 279–294. doi:10.1111/cla.12169. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10612456 entry