Halticini Costa 1853
Creators: name: Tatarnic, Nikolai J.
name: Cassis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae

description: HALTICINI COSTA (FIGS 3–58)  Halticini Costa, 1853: 75 (new tribe); Kirkaldy, 1906: 130 (cat.); Knight, 1923: 497, 498 (gen. key); Blatchley, 1926: 797 (east US gen. key); Hsiao, 1942: 253 (Chinese gen. key); Wagner, 1952: 95 (desc.; Palaearctic gen. key); Carvalho & Leston, 1952: 245 (British gen. key); Carvalho, 1952: 39, 40, 73 (list); Carvalho, 1955: 65 (world gen. key); Carvalho, 1958: 5 (cat.); Slater, 1950: 43 (female genitalia); Kelton, 1959: 33 (male genitalia); Wagner, 1961: 47 (European fauna); Wagner & Weber, 1964: 250 (French fauna); Wagner, 1973: 2 (Mediterranean fauna); Schuh, 1974: 26, 273 (classification); Schuh, 1975: 13 (femoral trichobothria); Schuh, 1976: 18, 35 (pretarsus; classification); Linnavuori, 1994: 4 (West African gen. key); Schuh & Slater, 1995: 44 (world cat.); Kerzhner, 1988: 778, 826 (key to gen.; Palaearctic fauna); Kerzhner & Konstantinov, 1999: 124 (male genitalia).  
Halticocoridae Douglas & Scott, 1865: 35 (fam. stat.).  
Stiphrosomatidae Douglas & Scott, 1865: 35 (new fam.).  
Halticaria Kirkaldy, 1902: 139 (list); Reuter, 1910: 115 (desc.; key); Poppius, 1911: 33 (class.); Poppius, 1914: 59, 82 (key; descr.); Van Duzee, 1916: 43 (cat.); Butler, 1923: 463 (descr.; key); Wagner, 1973: 15 (European fauna).  
Diplacaria Reuter, 1883: 564: (new division).  
Laboparia Reuter, 1883: 567 (new division; gen. key); Puton, 1886: 53 (cat.); Atkinson, 1890: 117 (cat.); Reuter, 1891: 17 (descr.); Distant, 1904: 479 (descr.); Reuter, 1905a: 19, 28 (descr.; key); Reuter, 1909: 71 (list); Oshanin, 1910: 793 (Palaearctic cat.); Oshanin, 1912: 73 (Palaearctic cat.); Van Duzee, 1916: 211, 373 (key; descr.); Wagner, 1973: 15 (subtribe; European fauna).  
Labopini Knight, 1923: 501 (key); Blatchley, 1926: 797 (east US gen. key); Hedicke, 1935: 53 (gen. key); Knight, 1941: 8, 19, 74 (Illinois gen. key); Kiritshenko, 1951: 117 (USSR gen. key).  
Myrmecophyaria Reuter, 1891: 106 (new division); Wagner, 1973: 15 (subtribe; European fauna).  
Halticarini Zimmerman, 1948: 198 (key).  
 Diagnosis: Usually black or dark brown with or without lighter contrasting markings, sometimes mostly light brown, tan or green; body generally stout and compact, sometimes elongate; hindlegs often saltatorial; pronotal texture most often smooth and glossy, sometimes punctate; vestiture variable, either only with thin simple setae, or also with pale and lamellate setae; legs and antennae often spinose; head typically dorsoventrally elongate, height of genae almost always equal to or greater than height of eye; pronotum campanulate, rectangulate or trapezoidal; aedeagus with thinly sclerotized phallotheca, apex of phallotheca most often constricted, sometimes keeled, rarely with thin apical projections, ductus seminis long or short with flexible ribbing formed by numerous thin, closely packed sclerotized rings, sometimes with elongate subapical segment lacking flexible ribbing; secondary gonopore weakly to strongly sclerotized, often with distinctive scale-like texturing, endosoma almost always present as a membranous bag within the phallotheca (except in Halticus), often with one or several sclerites, sometimes with fields of spines or dentitions; basal portion of both parameres usually elongate (except in Dampierella and Goodeniaphila, where the base of the left paramere is relatively short with respect to other halticines), both parameres ventrally concave; left paramere usually L-shaped, sometimes with swollen sensory lobe, with long apophysis, often apically hooked and sometimes bifid; right paramere flattened and generally spoon- or club-shaped, sometimes with a small apical apophysis; posterior wall of female without inter-ramal lobes (but see Anapus, Scirtetellus, and Labops); sclerotized rings variable, but generally weakly concave or laterally upturned; margins of first gonapophyses symmetrical, sometimes with weak sclerotization.
description: Published as part of Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2012, The Halticini of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae): generic reclassification, phylogeny, and host plant associations, pp. 558-658 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (3) on pages 566-568, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00770.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5406610