Mirinae

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Mirinae
Megaloceroea recticornis

Megaloceroea recticornis

Systematics
Order : Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera)
Subordination : Bed bugs (heteroptera)
Partial order : Cimicomorpha
Superfamily : Miroidea
Family : Soft bugs (Miridae)
Subfamily : Mirinae
Scientific name
Mirinae
Carvalho , 1959

The Mirinae are a subfamily of the soft bugs (Miridae) from the suborder Cimicomorpha . With more than 4000 known species and more than 300 genera, it is the most species-rich subfamily of the soft bug. There are more than 320 species in Europe and around 130 in Central Europe.

features

The animals are relatively large for soft bugs, Callichilella grandis with a length of around 15 millimeters is one of the largest soft bugs at all. The autapomorphies that characterize the subfamily are limited to the features of the genitals and pretarsi : the endosoma is membranous and bears sclerotized needles and a ring-shaped secondary gonopore . The posterior wall of the bursa copulatrix has a median process ("sigmoid process") and the pretarsi have diverging, lamellar parempodia on the claws.

Occurrence and way of life

The Herdoniini are almost exclusively restricted in their distribution to the tropics of the New World and are very similar in their physique to ants. The Hyalopeplini are a group common in the tropics of the Old World, whose hemielytres are transparent and which give the bugs a certain resemblance to large wasps. The Mecistoscelini comprises grass-sucking bed bugs spread in the Orient, with slender bodies and long, slender extremities. The Mirini are distributed worldwide and include most of the genera of the Mirinae. They include bedbugs with a typical soft bug, oval body. Many types of mirini are of economic importance. The resthenini are common in the New World and are predominantly patterned in red and black warning colors. The evaporation area of ​​your scent glands is strongly reduced. The stenodemini are a worldwide group of pale colored bedbugs with an elongated body that suckle on grass. Most of the members of the subfamily feed on phytophagus, only a few are predatory or zoophytophagous. Many of the phytophagous species, however, at least occasionally also have a predatory diet.

Taxonomy and systematics

According to the classification of Schwartz (1987), which was confirmed by Cassis & Schuh in 2012, the Mirinae comprise six tribes:

Species in Europe

The following species occur in Europe:

More types

A selection of non-European species:

gallery

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b RT Schuh, JA Slater: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1995, p. 177.
  2. ^ A b c G. Cassis & RT Schuh: Systematics, Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Host Associations of the Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha). Annual Review of Entomology, 2012. 57: pp. 377-404 doi: 10.1146 / annurev-ento-121510-133533 .
  3. ↑ a b Mirinae. Fauna Europaea, accessed July 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Ekkehard Wachmann , Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Bugs. Volume 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (lichen bugs), Miridae (soft bugs) (=  The animal world of Germany and the adjacent parts of the sea according to their characteristics and their way of life . 75th part). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN 3-931374-57-2 , p.  47 .

literature

  • RT Schuh, JA Slater: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1995.

Web links

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