Superfamily IDIOSTOLOIDEA
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June 2012 - Professor Gerry Cassis, Anna Namyatova, Nikolai Tatarnic and Celia Symonds, University of New South Wales, Sydney
15 February 2002
Introduction
The Idiostoloidea is a superfamily comprising two families: Idiostolidae and Henicocoridae. The superfamily has an eastern Gondwanan distribution. Idiostolids are found in southern South America and Australia. Henicocorids are restricted to the wet forests of south-eastern Australia.
Both families were first erected as subfamilies of Lygaeidae. Scudder (1962) erected the idiostolids as a family of Pentatomomorpha. He indicated that they share morphological similarities with the Pachygronthidae, Heterogastridae and Rhyparochromidae (as Lygaeidae subfamilies). Woodward (1968) described the henicocorids as a subfamily of Lygaeidae and proposed close affinities with the Oxycarenidae and Idiostolidae.
Štys (1967) erected a new superfamily, the Idiostoloidea, to reflect the plesiomorphy of the idiostolids. Most heteropterists accept that the Idiostolidae occupy an isolated position within the Pentatomomorpha (Štys & Kerzhner 1975; Schuh 1986; Carver et al. 1991; Schuh & Slater 1995). Schaefer (1966a, 1966b, 1966c, 1993) and Schaefer & Wilcox (1969) also concluded that the Idiostolidae are a plesiomorphic group, but retained them within the Lygaeoidea sensu lato.
Henry (1997) proposed a cladistic analysis of the Pentatomomorpha, which recognises the Idiostoloidea (Idiostolidae + Henicocoridae) as a monophyletic group based on the following synapomorphies: abdominal trichobothria short, abdominal segment VII lacking connexiva, and genital chamber membranous and sac-like. His work also established the Idiostoloidea as the sister-group to the Lygaeoidea.
This arrangement was followed by Cassis & Gross (2002: 149).
General References
Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp.
Henry, T.J. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of family groups within the infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the Lygaeoidea. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 90(3): 275-301
Schaefer, C.W. 1966a. The morphology and higher systematics of the Idiostolinae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59: 602-613
Schaefer, C.W. 1966b. Some notes on heteropteran trichobothria. Michigan Entomologist 1: 85-90
Schaefer, C.W. 1966c. Some notes on heteropteran trichobothria. Michigan Entomologist 1: 85-90
Schaefer, C.W. 1993. The Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): an annotated outline of its systematic history. European Journal of Entomology 90: 105-122
Schaefer, C.W. & Wilcox, D. 1969. Notes on the morphology, taxonomy, and distribution of the Idiostolidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62: 485-502
Schuh, R.T. 1986. The influence of cladistics on Heteropteran classification. Annual Review of Entomology 31: 67-93
Scudder, G.G.E. 1962. Results of the Royal Society expedition to southern Chile, 1958–1959: Lygaeidae (Hemiptera), with the description of a new subfamily. The Canadian Entomologist 94: 1064-1075
Štys, P. 1967. Monograph of Malcinae, with reconsideration of morphology and phylogeny of related groups. (Heteroptera, Malcidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 37: 351-516
Štys, P. & Kerzhner, I. 1975. The rank and nomenclature of higher taxa in recent Heteroptera. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 72: 65-79
Woodward, T.E. 1968. A new subfamily of Lygaeidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) from Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 37: 125-132
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