Plagiognathus flavipes Reuter, 1875: 57

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 : 249

Plagiognathus flavipes Reuter, 1875: 57 (n. sp.).

The transfer of Capsus flavipes Provancher to Plagiognathus makes flavipes Reuter a junior secondary homonyn. I therefore propose the new name, Plagiognathus reuterellus , for flavipes Reuter.

This taxon was placed in Poliopterus (= Europiella ) by Wagner ( 1952), but as indicated by Schuh et al. (1995), the genitalia (fig. 39) are of the typical Plagiognathus type. The specimens I have examined and illustrated were collected in Spain (?) by J. Ribes at Conreria (Marasme), on Lonicera (Caprifoliaceae) .

ETYMOLOGY: Named for O. M. Reuter, who originally described the species.

HOST: Lonicera sp. (Wagner, 1975; specimens examined).