New paper!

Jordão R., Barbosa J.F., Moreira F.F.F.: "Survey of the Notonectidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) from northeastern Brazil"

A four-year survey for Notonectidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) was conducted in eleven conservation units and adjacent areas distributed over six states in northeastern Brazil. Nearly 1400 specimens of the following 18 species, four genera, and two subfamilies have been collected: Buenoa amnigenus (White, 1879), B. femoralis (Fieber, 1851), B. fuscipennis (Berg, 1879), B. koina Nieser & Pelli, 1994, B. konta Nieser & Pelli, 1994, B. mutabilis Truxal, 1953, B. pallipes (Fabricius, 1803), B. platycnemis (Fieber, 1851), B. pseudomutabilis Barbosa, Ribeiro & Nessimian, 2010, B. salutis Kirkaldy, 1904, B. tarsalis Truxal, 1953, B. unguis Truxal, 1953 (Anisopinae); Enitharoides brasiliensis (Spinola, 1837), E. tricomerus Barbosa, Ribeiro & Nessimian, 2017, Martarega bentoi Truxal, 1949, M. brasiliensis Truxal, 1949, M. membranacea White, 1879, and Notonecta disturbata Hungerford, 1926 (Notonectinae). Altogether, they represent 30 new records from the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Pernambuco, Piauí, and Sergipe, and seven new records from northeastern Brazil, increasing the number of species recorded from the region from 11 to 18. A key to these species is provided, as well as illustrations, diagnoses, taxonomic notes, and a summary of their known geographic distributions.

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/120598/list/9/

New paper!

Boderau M., Nel A. & Engel M. S: "The earliest chinch bug (Hemiptera, Blissidae): A new genus from mid-Cretaceous
Kachin amber"

The earliest known fossil of the chinch bug family Blissidae Stål, 1862 is described and figured from a macropterous male preserved in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar. Prosthoblissus primigenius n. gen., n. sp. is noteworthy for the putatively plesiomorphic retention of open procoxal cavities, a character state shared with a swath of arguable early-diverging extant genera. It is distinguished from those genera based on a unique combination of plesiomorphic and apomorphic character states, as well as from Eoblissus gallicus Garrouste, Schubnel & Nel, 2019, the prior earliest fossil of the family. This occurrence extends the age of the family from the early Eocene to the middle Cretaceous, greatly revising available calibration points for crown-group Blissidae.

https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a9.pdf

Next True Bugs Tuesday!

Dear fellow heteropterists,
The next True Bug Tuesday seminar is on March 25th at 2PM Los Angeles, 5PM New York, 6PM Sao Paulo, 10PM Berlin, and 8AM (next day) in Sydney. Dr. Talita Roell will speak about Asopinae. The flyer and zoom info are below. Please feel free to forward to colleagues who are currently not IHS members.

Please reach out to one of us if you are interested in presenting later in 2025, we are always looking for volunteers!

This series of talks is free for IHS members and non-members and is meant to enhance communication among researchers and students interested in heteropteran systematics and biodiversity, attract new members to the IHS, and enhance inclusivity. We aim to maximize diversity and inclusivity of speakers and talks with respect to geography, ethnicity, gender, taxonomic group, and research questions and approaches.

Join Zoom Meeting https://ucr.zoom.us/j/91310823830?pwd=iotoX0Ejkk92aAeF5AiYtCiLzH8KD7.1