IHS – Internationa Heteropterists' Society

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.

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International Heteropterists' Society5 hours ago

New paper!

Mu, C.-M. et al. "A new species of genus Tingiometra from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tingiometrinae)".

Tingidae are also known as ‘lace bugs’ because of the delicate, lace-like appearance of their pronotum and hemelytra. Currently, lace bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Tingidae) comprise approximately more than 2,613 species are placed in about 318 genera (Schuh & Weirauch, 2020), they are extremely important phytophagous pests from all over the world (Drake & Davis, 1960; Drake & Ruhoff, 1965). Tingidae are classified into three extant subfamilies: Tinginae; Cantacaderinae; Vianaidinae, and one extinct subfamily: Tingiometrinae. To date, 46 genera with 82 species of Tingidae are known in the fossil record (Wang et al., 2021; Kaulfuss & Heiss, 2023; Ross, 2024). The subfamily Tinginae comprises 29 genera and 46 species, Cantacaderinae includes 6 genera and 18 species, Vianaidinae consists of 2 genera and 2 species, Tingiometrinae contains 2 genera and 5 species and 7 genera and 11 species remain unassigned to any subfamily (Schuh et al., 2006; Heiss et al., 2015; Du & Yao, 2018; Popov & Golub, 2019; Golub & Heiss, 2020; Poinar & Vega, 2020; Golub et al., 2021; Wang et al., 2021; Ross, 2024), ranging from the Early Cretaceous to the Miocene. Archetingis ladinica Montagna et al., 2018, the earliest fossil record of the Tingidae is from the Middle Triassic in Switzerland, but its classification remains controversial (Wang et al., 2021).

A new species of genus Tingiometra from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tingiometrinae) | Palaeoentomology

Tingidae are also known as ‘lace bugs’ because of the delicate, lace-like appearance of their pronotum and hemelytra. Currently, lace bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Tingidae) comprise approximately more than 2,613 species are placed in about 318 genera (Schuh & Weirauch, 2020), they are extrem...

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International Heteropterists' Society3 days ago

New paper!

Xun, H. et al. "A remarkable new genus and species of Mictini from southern China (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae)".

In this paper, we describe a new genus, Phyllomictis gen. nov., to accommodate a new species of the tribe Mictini from southern China, Phyllomictis chinensis sp. nov. The new genus is morphologically similar to genera Derepteryx White, 1839 and Helcomeria Stål, 1873 but shows substantial genetic divergence and differs in the pronotum, hind femora, and hind tibiae. We discuss the potential distribution range and relationships, and provide a key to the genera of Mictini in China.

https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5555.1.7