Rhinomirini (Gorczyca and Cherot, 1998)

Namyatova, Anna A. & Tyts, Veronica D., 2025, Total-evidence phylogeny of the subfamily Cylapinae and the divergence dates for its subgroupings (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1), pp. 1-34 : 27-28

Position of Rhinomirini and their synapomorphies

Gorczyca placed the Rhinomiris complex, the Rhinocylapus complex, and Rhinomiriella Gorczyca, 2001 (junior synonym of Ceratofulvius Reuter, 1902 ) in Rhinomirini ( Gorczyca 2000, 2001). Gorczyca (2000) suggested that this is a sister group to Cylapini . Superficially, Rhinomirini are more similar to Fulviini , because their representatives have a more or less prognathous head and long labium, and this tribe forms a clade with Fulviini in the study by Wolski (2021). Namyatova and Cassis (2019a) showed that Rhinomirini sensu Gorczyca (2000) are non-monophyletic based on molecular and morphological data. In that work, the Rhinomiris complex did not form well-supported sister-group relationships with any other group. The Rhinocylapus complex and Ceratofulvius formed well-supported clades with representatives of Fulviini . Therefore, Rhinomirini were restricted to the Rhinomiris complex, comprising only four genera: Rhinomiris , Rhinomiridius Poppius, 1909 , Lundbladiolla Carvalho, 1955 , and Pararhinomiris Gorczyca, 2003 ( Namyatova and Cassis 2019 a, Tyts et al. 2022). Those results were confirmed in the present study. In the paper by Oh et al. (2023), only Rhinomiris camelus Poppius, 1909 was included in the analysis, and it did not form well-supported sister-group relationships with other taxa.

In this analysis, we included the molecular data for Rhinomiris only, and we also included morphological data for Rhinomiridius dentatus . These two genera form a well-supported clade, and this confirms the previous results ( Namyatova and Cassis 2019 a, Tyts et al. 2022). In most analyses, Rhinomirini form poorly supported clades with other groups. The exception is the Bayesian analysis with 65 taxa, where this tribe is in the clade with Bothriomirini , Cylapini , Vanniini , Mirinae , Orthotylinae , Phylinae , and Bryocorinae without Nesidiocoris tenuis (PPTE = 90; see discussion of Cylapinae ). We did not have specimens of Lundbladiolla and Pararhinomiris for examination. The next step in studying Rhinomirini sensu Namyatova and Cassis (2019a) should involve testing their monophyly with morphological and molecular data. The position of Rhinomirini within Miridae remains uncertain, and most probably, genomic data are needed to clarify it.