Orthocephalus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Cimicomorpha
Superfamilia: Miroidea

Familia: Miridae
Subfamilia: Orthotylinae
Tribus: Halticini
Genus: Orthocephalus
References

Namyatova, A.A.; Konstantinov, F.V. 2009: Revision of the genus Orthocephalus Fieber, 1858 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae). Zootaxa, 2316: 1–118. Abstract & excerpt [erratum in Zootaxa, 2358: 68 (2010)]

Orthocephalus 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

"Orthocephalus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
"Orthocephalus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.

"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.