Progress on Mexican Orthotylines for PBI Project 2006 (Heteroptera: Miridae)Michael D. Schwartz
Associate Research Scientist, ECORC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Orthotyline Progress
• Received, sorted, and identified specimens from all collection sources
• Photographed and borrowed types of Jornandes from Natural History Museum, London
• Photographed male and female specimens of Slaterocoris, Scalponotatus, and new genera
• Dissected and illustrated male genitalia of all species of Slaterocoris, Scalponotatus, and new genera
• Submitted Jornandes manuscript• Working on first draft of Slaterocoris manuscript
Distribution of Slaterocoris species
Slaterocoris species distributed in Mexico
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Slaterocoris flavipes group species distributions
Slaterocoris croceipes group species distributions
Slaterocoris croceipes group species
apache croceipes fuscomarginalis
pilosus rubrofemoralis tibialis
Selected Slaterocoris croceipes group male genitaliacroceipes
tibialis
fuscomarginalisrubrofemoralis
Localites records for Ficinus Distant and Jornandes Distant
Ficinus
Jornandes
Jornandes championi
Hosts families for Jornandes spp.
• Asteraceae – Montana
• Burseraceae – Bursera
• Convolvulaceae – Ipomoea
• Euphorbiaceae – Croton
• Fabacae: Mimosoideae – Desmanthus, Mimosa
• Lamiaceae – Salvia
• Malvaceae – Ceiba
• Simaroubaceae – Recchia
• Tiliaceae – Heliocarpus
Ficinus sagittarius (Distant), female holotype
Ficinus sagittarius Distant
Ficinus distanti, manuscript name
Dorsal habitus of Ficinus and Jornandes spp.
Jornandes cruralis Distant, female holotype
Jornandes cruralis Distant
Jornandes championi Distant, female holotype and type species
surface structure of densely placed punctures – diagnostic for genus
Jornandes genetivus (Distant)
Jornandes robustus manuscript name
Distribution of Scalponotatus sensu latum
Amulacoris dissimulans (Distant) [Jornandes], female lectotype and paralectotype – type species
Amulacoris subalbicans (Distant) [Jornandes], female holotype
Scalponotatus mimosus Kelton
Scalponotatus chillcotti Kelton
new genus nr Scalponotatus, reinharti (Carvalho and Schaffner) [Slaterocoris]
new genus nr Scalponotatus capitatus (Kelton)
new genus nr Scalponotatus new sp. #2
new genus nr Scalponotatus and new sp. # 1
new genus nr Scalponotatus and n. spp. 3 and 3A
n. sp. 3
n. sp. 3A
new genus nr Scalponotatus new sp. #3
new genus nr Scalponotatus n. sp. #7
new genus nr Scalponotatus albicornis (Kelton)
Inacora new species from Sinaloa
Lopiella flavoscuta Knight
Lopiella new species
Lopidella new sp. # 14