Microphylellus minuendus Knight, 1927: 10

SCHUH, RANDALL T., 2001, Revision Of New World Plagiognathus Fieber, With Comments On The Palearctic Fauna And The Description Of A New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (266), pp. 1-267 : 254

Microphylellus minuendus Knight, 1927: 10 (n.

sp.).

HOLOTYPE: Female: ‘‘ Plum Point, June 21, 14 Md.’’ Deposited in the National Museum of Natural History , Washington, D.C.

The synonymy of Microphylellus with Plagiognathus leaves the placement of this species from Maryland in question. The holotype female is almost uniformly light orange in coloration, except for the clypeus adjacent to the labrum and the maxillary plates. The body is very broad and convexly round­ ed, including the pronotum. The head is much narrower than the strongly declivent pronotum, short, and distinctly hypognathus. Except for the coloration, the general appearance is similar to that of Monalocoris americanus Wagner and Slater. During the course of this study I have not examined any taxon with associated females that would seem to conform to minuendus .