Orius (Heterorius), Wagner, 1952

Yamada, Kazutaka, Yasunaga, Tomohide & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2015, The flower bug genus Orius Wolff, 1811 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae: Oriini) of Thailand, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 1103-1157 : 1151

Subgenus Heterorius Wagner, 1952

Heterorius Wagner, 1952: 27 (subgenus of Orius ). Type species by original designation: Cimex minutus Linnaeus, 1758 ; Péricart 1967: 150 (diagnosis, key, figures); Péricart 1972: 174 (redescription, key); Elov 1976: 373 (key); Kerzhner 1988: 775 (key); Yasunaga 1993: 12 (redescription); Larivière and Wearing 1994: 18 (diagnosis); Péricart 1996: 123 (catalogue); Yasunaga 1997b: 379 (diagnosis, discussion); Yasunaga 2001: 292 (note); Ghahari et al. 2009: 51 (list); Jung et al. 2011: 65 (diagnosis); Aukema et al. 2013: 90 (catalogue); Jung et al. 2013: 424 (catalogue).

Diagnosis

Recognised by the combination of the following characters: head without a longer erect seta on each side of clypeus, near anteromedial margin of each eye, and between eye and ocellus; pronotum densely covered with setae and punctures, lacking long stout seta on each angle, with callus usually arched, impunctate, shiny; paramere with rounded cone, and usually with denticule, sometimes lacking. Detailed diagnostic characters were provided by Péricart (1967, 1972).

Remarks

The subgenus Heterorius , currently containing 11 species, is widely distributed in the Palearctic Region and in the adjoining areas of the Oriental Region ( Thailand) (cf. Péricart 1996; Yasunaga 1997b; Aukema et al. 2013). The species with the widest distribution, Orius vicinus ( Ribaut, 1923) , also occurs in New Zealand and North America ( Larivière and Wearing 1994; Lewis and Lattin 2010).