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