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The broad objectives of the International Heteropterists’ Society (IHS) are to promote systematic, biogeographic, and biological studies of Heteroptera and to cultivate cooperative research among heteropterists throughout the world. The Society is organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes.

The Society holds a meeting every four years at locations around the world, where members give presentations on their work and discuss the directions of the Society. The Society’s website provides an online portal for distribution of information about bugs, including a world bibliography, taxon pages, and membership details.

Interested in joining the IHS? Read more about the Society and information on membership. You can also donate to the Student Travel Fund your contribution is very valuable!

We had an excellent presentation about the next Meeting in Thailand during the last Truebug Tuesday.

Follow the link to our Youtube channel to see it, and do not forget to explore the section about the Meeting. If you have any questions, contact the organizer Bob Sites (bugsinbangkok@gmail.com).

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International Heteropterists' Society
International Heteropterists' Society13 hours ago
New paper!

Kóbor P. et al.: "Discovery of the “last” Central European cylapine plant bug and its implications on biogeography and taphocenology"

The subfamily Cylapinae Kirkaldy, 1903 with its 530 extant species assigned to 100 genera within six tribes, is a relatively small group of the hyperdiverse true bug family, Miridae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha). However, the exact diversity and distribution of the subfamily remain largely unknown due to its obscure lifestyle: cylapine bugs mainly live under tree bark and in decaying wood. The representatives of the subfamily are mostly of tropical-subtropical distribution with the fauna consisting of merely 60 species of 14 genera in the warmest part of the Palaearctic region, and only a single species present in the European part of the Mediterranean. The fossil record of the subfamily consists of 30 species: 27 species from the Eocene (mostly from Baltic amber) and two from the Miocene (one from Dominican amber and one from Iberian lacustrine oil shale). Here, we report the first representative of the subfamily, Pulafulvius pliocenicus gen. et sp. nov. from the Pliocene of the Carpathian Basin. The species appears to be one of the youngest members of the cylapine palaeofauna of Europe, and thus, has significant implications for the historical biogeography of the subfamily and the palaeoenvironment of the Pula Maar Lake site.

#article-info" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-025-00667-0#article-info
International Heteropterists' Society
International Heteropterists' Society3 days ago
A couple of updates and reminders regarding the VIII IHS Meeting in Bangkok, January 5-9, 2026.

Titles and abstracts are due on September 30, 2025. Please use the link on the website to submit your information.
https://heteroptera.org/abstract-submission/

Also, please register for the meeting before submitting your title and abstract.
https://heteroptera.org/viiimeeting-registration/
International Heteropterists' Society
International Heteropterists' Society3 days ago
New paper!

Zhang, M., Du, Ren, D. & Yao, Y.Z.: "The first sphagnum bug (Hemiptera: Hebridae) from the Late Cretaceous Kachin amber"

A new genus and species of Hebridae, Archaeohebrus alius gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Late Cretaceous Kachin amber. The new genus is assigned to the Hebridae based on the bucculae elevated posteriorly forming a pair of ridges, short transverse mesoscutellum, and triangular metanotal elevation. This new genus differs from other genera of Hebridae in the forewing having three cells, three-segmented tarsi, and terminally inserted genital segments. The new genus might represent the most basal lineage of Hebridae, and the forewing venation of this Cretaceous hebrids hints at a close relationship between the Mesoveliidae and Hebridae.

https://mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.7.3.10
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