Orthotylinae

Orthotylus virescens, copyright B. Schoenmakers.

Belongs within: Miridae.

The Orthotylinae are a group of mirid bugs in which parempodia are lamellate, recurved and apically strongly convergent, pulvilli are present, and the pronotum usually lacks a collar (Carver et al. 1991).

<==Orthotylinae CGW91
    |  i. s.: Fronsetta MC13
    |         Opera MC13
    |         Rankiniella MC13
    |         Sophocoris MC13
    |         Macrotylus MC13
    |--Austromirini CGW91
    |    |--Austromiris CGW91
    |    |--Dasymiris schoutedeni CGW91, G75
    |    |--Porphyrodema CGW91
    |    `--Zanessa CGW91
    |--Halticini CGW91
    |    |--Myrmecoridea CGW91
    |    |--Myrmecoroides CGW91
    |    `--Halticus CGW91
    |         |--H. apterus H01
    |         |--H. minutus CGW91
    |         `--H. pusillus H01
    `--Orthotylini CGW91
         |--Melanotrichus CGW91
         |--Pseudoloxops CGW91
         |--Zanchius CGW91
         |--Cyrtorhinus CGW91
         |    |--C. lividipennis CGW91
         |    `--C. mundulus (Breddin 1896) [=Periscopus mundulus] K08
         |--Coridromius CGW91
         |    |--C. pilbarensis MC13
         |    `--C. variegatus CGW91
         `--Orthotylus F05
              |--O. adenocarpi A71
              |--O. concolor A71
              |--O. flavosparsus H01
              |--O. (Pinocaspus) gemmae Gessé & Goula 2004 F05
              |--O. schoberiae R13
              `--O. virescens A71

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A71] Askew, R. R. 1971. Parasitic Insects. Heinemann Educational Books: London.

[CGW91] Carver, M., G. F. Gross & T. E. Woodward. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects etc.) In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers vol. 1 pp. 429–509. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

[F05] Fernández, J. 2005. Noticia de nuevos táxones para la ciencia en el ámbito Íbero-Balear y Macaronésico. Nuevos táxones animales descritos en la península Ibérica y Macaronesia desde 1994 (IX). Graellsia 61 (2): 261–282.

[G75] Gross, G. F. 1975. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera—Part I. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia.

[H01] Horváth, G. 1901. Hemipterák [Hemiptera]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 245–274. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.

[MC13] Majer, J. D., S. K. Callan, K. Edwards, N. R. Gunawardene & C. K. Taylor. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 13–112.

[R13] Reuter, O. M. 1913. Lebensgewohnheiten und Instinkte der Insekten bis zum Erwachen der sozialen Instinkte. R. Friedländer & Sohn: Berlin.