Biology:Orthotylinae

Short description: Subfamily of true bugs

Orthotylinae
Malacocoris chlorizans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Subfamily:	Orthotylinae Van Duzee, 1916

Orthotylinae is a subfamily of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are at least 650 described species and at least 70 genera in Orthotylinae. The Orthotylinae have traditionally been diagnosed by their possession of lamellate, apically divergent parempodia.

Tribes

BioLib includes:

1. Austromirini Carvalho, 1976
   1. Austromiris Kirkaldy, 1902
   2. Dasymiris Poppius, 1911
   3. Fronsetta Cassis, 2008
   4. Kirkaldyella Poppius, 1921
   5. Lattinova Cassis, 2008
   6. Metopocoris Cassis, 2008
   7. Myrmecoridea Poppius, 1921
   8. Myrmecoroides Gross, 1963
   9. Porphyrodema Reuter, 1904
   10. Sinistropa Cassis, 2008
   11. Watarrkamiris Cassis, 2008
   12. Zanessa Kirkaldy, 1902
2. Ceratocapsini Van Duzee, 1916
3. Coridromiini Tatarnic & Cassis, 2012
   1. Coridromius Signoret, 1862
4. Halticini A. Costa, 1853
5. Nichomachini Schuh, 1974
   1. Laurinia Reuter, 1884
   2. Nichomachus (bug) Distant, 1904
   3. Pseudonichomachus Schuh, 1974
6. Orthotylini Van Duzee, 1916

• unplaced genus Cafayatina Carvalho & Carpintero, 1986

See also

• List of Orthotylinae genera

References

• Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States. Brill Academic Publishers.

Further reading

• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Orthotylinae

Wikidata ☰ Q6053592 entry