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' Society11 hours ago

New paper!

Chen Z., Li H., & Cai W.: "A review of the Chinese Empicoris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) with descriptions of five new species and discussion on species-group division in the genus".

The thread-legged bug genus Empicoris Wolff, 1811 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) is a cosmopolitan group of about 90 species, but only four have been reported in China previously. In the present study, five new species of Empicoris, namely E. bifurcatus sp. nov., E. discaloides sp. nov., E. qianlei sp. nov., E. qinpengi sp. nov., and E. sinicus sp. nov., are described from China; four additional species, E. brachystigma (Horváth, 1914), E. gracilentus (Jakovlev, 1907), E. magnispineus Ishikawa, 2008, and E. tesselatoides Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1960, are newly recorded in the country; and an identification key to the Chinese species of Empicoris is provided. In addition, the species-group division of Empicoris is discussed based on morphological information of the newly discovered species and a phylogenetic analysis for COI barcode data of selected species, indicating that some previously proposed species-groups (e.g., E. discalis-group and E. salinus-group) may be artificial assemblages and need to be reconsidered.

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International Heteropterists' Society1 day ago

New paper!

Polhemus D.A.: "A new species of Rhagovelia (Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Sumba Island, Lesser Sunda Islands with notes on zoogeography".

The new species Rhagovelia sumbana is described from the island of Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The species possesses character states that place it in the R. sarawakensis group, whose members are otherwise known only from the Sundaland continental platform. The presence of this species on Sumba provides additional supporting evidence for the prevailing tectonic hypothesis that Sumba is a displaced continental fragment rifted from an original position on the southeast margin of Sundaland near Borneo, and the geological evidence for this is briefly reviewed. Photomicrographs of key morphological characters for R. sumbana, a map of its known distribution on Sumba, and a photograph of the type-locality habitat are provided.

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International Heteropterists' Society5 days ago

The 10th European Hemiptera Congress in Martonvásár, Hungary is coming to an end. Many interesting talks about true bugs were presented, among other topics.

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