Orthocephalus

Orthocephalus
Orthocephalus coriaceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Subfamily:	Orthotylinae
Tribe:	Halticini
Genus:	Orthocephalus Fieber, 1858

Orthocephalus ("straight head") is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are more than 20 described species in Orthocephalus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Orthocephalus coriaceus

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Orthocephalus:

• Orthocephalus arnoldii (V.Putshkov, 1961)
• Orthocephalus bivittatus Fieber, 1864
• Orthocephalus brevis (Panzer, 1798)
• Orthocephalus championi Saunders, 1894
• Orthocephalus coriaceus (Fabricius, 1777)
• Orthocephalus fulvipes Reuter, 1904
• Orthocephalus funestus Jakovlev, 1881
• Orthocephalus medvedevi Kiritshenko, 1951
• Orthocephalus melas Seidenstucker, 1962
• Orthocephalus minimus Drapolyuk & Kerzhner, 2000
• Orthocephalus modarresi Linnavuori, 1997
• Orthocephalus proserpinae (Mulsant & Rey, 1852)
• Orthocephalus putshkovi Namyatova & Konstantinov, 2009
• Orthocephalus rhyparopus Fieber, 1864
• Orthocephalus saltator (Hahn, 1835)
• Orthocephalus scorzonerae Drapolyuk & Kerzhner, 2000
• Orthocephalus sefrensis Reuter, 1895
• Orthocephalus solidus (Seidenstucker, 1971)
• Orthocephalus styx Reuter, 1908
• Orthocephalus tibialis (Reuter, 1894)
• Orthocephalus tristis (Reuter, 1894)
• Orthocephalus turkmenicus Namyatova & Konstantinov, 2009
• Orthocephalus vittipennis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835)

References

1. "Orthocephalus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
2. "Orthocephalus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
3. "Orthocephalus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-22.

Further reading

• Henry, T. J.; Kelton, L. A. (1986). "Orthocephalus saltator Hahn (Heteroptera: Miridae): corrections of misidentifications and the first authentic report for North America". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 94 (1): 51–55. JSTOR   25009507.
• Kerzhner, I. M.; Josifov, M. (1999). Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 3: Cimicimorpha II: Miridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN   978-90-71912-19-1.
• "On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34 (1): 15–48. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.498.8756 . doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x.

External links

• Media related to Orthocephalus at Wikimedia Commons