Bertsa

Bertsa
Bertsa lankana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Tribe:	Mirini
Genus:	Bertsa Kirkaldy, 1904 [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]
BertaKirkaldy 1902 [4]

Bertsa is a genus of true bugs in the family Miridae.

Characteristics

Elongated oval shaped body, antenna with four segments. ^[1] The white band on the dorsal of the insect marks the difference between this genus with others within the same tribus. ^{[5] : 482  [6]}

Distribution

This genus is distributed in warmer area of East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia. They have been found from Japan ^{[5] : 472} to South Korea ^{[5] : 469}, Mainland China ^{[5] : 469} and Hong Kong ^[6] 。

Species

So far only two species have been described:

• Bertsa lankana (Kirby, 1891): Seen only in the warmest provinces of South Korea ^{[5] : 469}, southern provinces of Mainland China ^{[1] [5] : 469}, Taiwan, ^{[7] [8]} as well as the area spanning from Indonesia to Sri Lanka. ^{[5] : 472}
• Bertsa major Zheng, 2004 ^[1]

References

1. "各论 三、盲蝽族 Mirini Hahn, 1833 19. 隆胸盲蝽属Bertsa Kirkaldy, 1904". Fauna Sinica. Vol. Insecta Vol. 33. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
2. "Betacallis". p. 423. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
3. "?". Entomologist . 37: 280.
4. J. Bombay nat. Hist., Soc. 14, 57.
5. Oh, Min Suk; Yasunaga, Tomo; Duwal, Ram Keshari; Lee, Seung Hwan (August 2018). "Annotated checklist of the plant bug tribe Mirini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) recorded on the Korean Peninsula, with descriptions of three new species". European Journal of Entomology . 115 (3): 467–492. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
6. "Bertsa observed by chanddgreen at July 1st, 2018". iNaturalist.org. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
7. "Bertsa lankana(Körby, 1891) ". TaiBIF . Retrieved 2019-01-01.
8. "Bertsa lankana(Körby, 1891)". TaiBNET . Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia_Sinica.

External links

• Nomenclator Zoologicus