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CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE HEMIPTEROUS

GENERA DIEUCHES DOHRN ( LYGAEI:9AE : RHYPAROCHROMINJ..E ) , RHYPODES STAL ( LYGAEIDAE : ORSILLINAE ) , AND CHIHAif!IRIS WOODWARD ( !HRIDAE : MilliNAE),

with supporting papers on

OTHE.."R. Rh'YPA?cOCHROli�INAE, ORSILLINAE AND MIRIDAE,

OTHER HEMIPTRRA, AND IN O'r:Hffi ORDERS

APPLICATION FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

from

��SSEY UNir£RSITY

PALif.ERSTON NORTH, IIDIJ' ZEALAND

by

Alan Charles EYLES

September, 1992 1

n-;-I'R00uCTION

·:�hen the applicant was awarded a -Sir '.'lalter :wlhol­ land l<'ellovrship in i 966, the opportunity arose for a post-doctoral fel lowship at tne University of �)ritish

Columbia, TJancouver, C ar.ad a, where Profezsor G. G. E.

Scudder vvas , aiJd still is, working on the lygaeid sub­ family P.h;yrparochrominae of the ·:;orld. Here vms the char;.ce to work on a large, difficult genus containing species from many different parts of the world, and thus ma�e a major contribution in t�is area. The cho­ ice was between Dieuches Dohrn and Fachybrachius I-Iehr. because no other genus ir! the Rhyparochro:Einae contains anyth ing like the nunlber of species contained by these two ger..era. The complex genus Dieuches was selected.

On accom1t of his teaching and other duties, Professor

Scudder' s available time for research was not UI1limit,.­ ed, and as he put it, it woul d be a great help to him to have that ger,us tho roughly revised.

:i.y trair.ing has been on , farr:ily Lygaeid2e, with an i ... Agr.Sc. tL e sis ( Masse y 1958) en ;:;Jsius huttoni (��ite) - subfamily Orsillinae, and a Ph.D. thesis (University of London, 1962) on some Rhyparo­ chro:ninae with special r ef ere nce . to t!1eir f2eding habits.

Before, durinc, ar•d

C3.nt on R!-,yperochrominae ( I\ew Zealand and overseas species). Since then I have also published original 2

contributions o:·, rs;; Zeo.l&�d Ctrsillina e a�d. on ... iriJae.

-:'nus there are t.:::.ree t:neraes - Lygdeidae : Rhyparo­ chrominae, Lyr;aeidae : Crsillir"ae (New Zeal<:�d), LLd

!'i.iridae (meir:ly l';ew lealand). T£1e three major contri­ l butions in this application for the Degree of Doctor

I of Science (:.�assey u!l.iversity) are the monograph of �ches, the revisio� of Rhypodes St.n, and the re­ vision of Chinamiris Woodward (a major work on each theme). There follow supporting papers on each of these

!themes, plus some supporting papers on other He:miptera 1 and some on insects in other Orders. I The introduction of each of the three major contri ­ ·butions sets out the aim and importance of the work.

Assistance received is listed in acknowledgements.

This has also been done in the supporting papers.

Lygaeidae : Theme

���onograph of Dieuches The mo�ograph of Dieuches is a major contrib ution to our knowledge of these insects. It describes and keys 131 species, 71 of them new to science. The genus had not been revised as an entity for a complete cent­ ury. h!;any early descriptions were inadequate, and the­ re w-as no E..ey to all the des cri bed species in the genus.

The aim of the study was to set limits of the genus, and carefully distinguish Dieuches from closely related

�nera, as well as to provide accur�te drawings, good descriptions and a �ey to species to facilitate identi­ fication. All of the drawings, ir.cluding habitus draw- 3 �ngs (except the frontispiece) were done by the appli­ c;ant. Perhaps one of the features of the monograph of Dieuches (and the Rhypodes revision) is the numerical taxonomic analysis. This technique was only beginning to be seriously applied about the time the monograph of Dieuches was published, 1973 (and about a handful of years before).1 There were some "knotty11 problems to solve because of misidentifications and erroneous synon.my in the past - for example, determining what true Dieuches armatipes (Walker) was. All that remains of the hole­ type is the head, prothorax, first antennal segment and one foreleg (see pages 102-103 and 106-107). For • other problems and their solutions (where there was previously confusion with other species) see comments under D.armipes (F.) and its complex, D.patruelis (St81), D.longicollis (Dallas), D.alternatus Horvath (other records), D.femoralis Dohrn, D.herero Breddin

and D.oceanicus (Distant). The monograph of Dieuches was well received, as in­ dicated in excerpts from some book reviews cited below. 2 "This is a model revision of this difficult genus. I find little to fault it. Closely related genera are

carefully distinguished from Dieuches. There is a

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1 Sokal, R.R.; Sneath, P.A. 1963: Principles of Num­ erical . Freeman & C o., San Francisco. 2J:acific Insects 16(2-3): 244-, 1974-. Book review by the late Dr W.C. Gagne, rlemipterist, Bishop ii'!Useum. 4

checklist of species, synonyms and species formerly

included in Dieuches. The work is copiously illustrat­

ed • •• to help determine the species in question. There

are photos of a number of types. Hemipterists ha ving

to make accurate determinations in this genus, or to

delineate related genera, will find this work indis ­

pensable."

• 1u •• representatives of the genus Dieuches, but att-

empts at further identification were likely to prove

frustrating. This is now no longer true, the present

monograph covers the 131 known species (71 newly de s­

cribed ) and provides a practical key, careful descrip ­

tions, lists of material seen and notes on biology.

The whole work exudes a remarkable thoroughness and

includes sections on morphological characters, on the

· numerical analysis of phenetic relationships and zoo­

geography."

2 11'I'his revision of one of the largest and taxonomic­

ally most difficult genera of rhyparochromine Lygae­

idae will no doubt find its place in most entomolog­

ical libraries. It is an essential working tool for

all who may be called on to identify species of Dieu ­

�' and all those who come to work on them in any

areas of their biology, development, cytogenetics,

distribution or economics." ------1 Ent. mon. mag. 1974 April-June. Book revi ew by Dr T. R..E. Southvwod, Professor of Zoology, Oxford University. 2 J. Australian Ent. Soc. 1975: 14(1): 22. Book review by the late Dr T .E. Woodward, Senior Lecturer in Entom­ ology, University of Queensland. 5

A major revision such as the monograph of Dieuches will, understandably, not generate further taxonomic

publications on Dieucl:es for a long time, but I belie ­ ve that it helped generate Malipatil's splendidpaper1 revising the section of the complex genus Pachybrach­ �' and of necessity of some closely related genera, from the Australian region. However, ULe monograph has generated at least the follo��ng papers (known to the applicant) on biology and immature stages2 (two species), and effect of pop- ulation density on development, etc., and reproductioni in Dieuches. Finally, the male genitalia of two spec­ ies of Dieuches (and some species in other genera) are described and figured, with a discussion on taxonomic­ ally important characters, a key to those species and genera based on male genitalia, and the description of

a denticulate area on the parameres believed to facili­ tate holding during copulation.�

1 Malipatil, M.B. 1978: Revision of the (Hemiptera : Lygaeidae : Rhyparochrominae) of the Australian Region. Australian ,Journal of Zoology sup­ plementary series No. 56: 1-178.

2 JV.alipatil, M.B.; Ku.rnar, R. 1975: Biology and imma­ ture stages of some Queensland (Hem­ iptera : Heteroptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 1�(2): 113-128.

3 Biney, S. H. 198�: A study of the nymphal aggregat­ ion of Dieuches femoralis (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae). Science and its applications 5(2): 131-136.

�Piper, R.G. 1985: The male eenitalia of some Aus­ tralian (Hemiptera : neteroptera : Lygaeidae). J. Australian Ent. Soc. 2�(1): 4.5-56. 6

The Dieuches study itself also ger..erated the four closely supporting papers, A 1 to M-, by the applicant.

Some Further Work Generated by Supporting Papers on other Rhyparochrominae

The paper on the rhyparochromine tribe Targaremini (no. A11 ) , which included a key to the genera of Tar­ garemini of the '.vorld and a section on zoogeography, has generated further research publications by another 1 scientist. Malipatil described a further new species of !1/-etagerra 7ihite and revalidated M. helmsi (Reuter ) which had been synonyrnised with obscura White by Ber­ groth in 1916. Much additional material from more re­ cent collecting was available to him enabling discuss­ ion on distribution, wing polymorphism, habitat and host plant data. Morphological and distributional evi­ dence revealed that M.distincta Eyles 1967 is only a long-membrane form of M.obscura, and is synonymised with it. Interestingly, Malipatil states in his descr­ iption of the long-membrane form of obscura "The orig­ inal description of distincta applies entirely to this form of obscura." 'i'11is includes prominent punctation on pronotum, scutellum considerably longer than wide, and a tapering apical process on the aedeagus, all of which distinguish it from tile short-membrane form

(which has on the aedeagus a stout apical process, hooked or strongly flared ) •

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1 Jalipatil, M.B. 1976: Metagerra "ivhi'..,r; ( ::; teroptera: Lygaeidae); a review. New Zealan.1 Journal of :::cr.lOF'Y l: 3C3-312. 7 1 Malipatil's next paper revises the whole of the

New Zealand Targaremini ( and, as shown in l�iY paper A 11, most of the species and genera of I'art;aremini occur· in

New Zealand ) . He keys genera and species, and descri­

bes new genera and species including Geratarma eyles i

Malipatil. Millerocoris ductus Eyles had been descri­

bed on a single incomplete female, and Eminocoris con­

�Eyles on a single male. As more material of both

sexes had since become available e!'l.abling the study of

genital ia, Malipatil was able to finalise the generic

placement of conus. He states that the keel is present

in Millerocoris Eyles, but is inconspicuous, and inter­

estingly uses my keel character to key out the two

species ( keel conspicuous in Millerocoris conus (�les )

and inconspicuous in Millerocoris ductus ) . H� paper

was also partly generated by the earlier work of the

late Dr T. E. Woodward describing genera and species

of Targaremini. With careful work on the greater nwn­

ber of specimens available, ivialipatil has synony mised

two of Woodward's subspecies of Regatarma forsteri\uth

the species forsteri, raised three of them to specific

status but transferred them to a new genus, and trans­

ferred two other species to new genera. Malipatil has

published a further paper2 on wing polymorphism, spec-

------1 Malipatil, M.B. 1977: The Targaremini of New Zealand ( Hemiptera : Lygaeidae) ; a revision. New Zealand �urnal of Zoology 4: 333-367.

� Malipatil, 1vi.B. 1977: Distribution, origin and sp ec ­ lation, wing development, and host plant relationships Nf New Zealand Targaremini ( Hemiptera : Lygaeidae) . ' � Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 369-381 . iation and host plants in l';ew Zealand I'argaremini.

My papers A11, A13 and A14 began recording and ext­

ending the tribes of Rhyparochrominae represented in New Zealand, with descriptions of new endemic species

and sometimes genera. These have ge�erated the paper1

further extending this recording with the finding of

the two Australian species Paradrymus exilirostris

Bergroth and Grossander major ( Gross) in Kev1 Zealand.

The paper A13 describing Stizocephalus Eyles, "An

endemic genus of .iihyparociuomini from Few Zealar:d",

nelped Professor Scudder to solve a _proble:n. :=e :ta3 a

specime�'l from barber's collectio>.1 with <• :lata label "Victoria" and a determination label "Acompus rufiues

(Wolff) ". It v:as not that species, but coming from a

North American collection it was asswned to be from

Victoria on Vancouver Island. This vvas puzzling beca­

use it did not belong in any known genus represented

in Xorth America. Vv'hen Professor Scudder saw the draw- ings in the applicant's paper he noted the similarity

to the problem specimen ( which confirmed his suspicion about the Vancouver Island locality) , and realized at

that point that it may have come from Victoria, Aust­

ralia. He borrowed the holotype from New Zealand and

specimens resembling it from Australian collections.

The result was his paper describing six new species

1 Malipatil, i�.3. 1977: id.ditions to the of New Zealand ( Eeter optera : Lygaeidae ) . New Zealand �urnal of Zoology 4(2): 177-182.

\. 'J of Stizocephalus from Australia, recording S.breviros­

s 1970 from Australia, and providing a key to -tris Eyle 1 the species of Stizocephalus.

In paper A14 I publish the first record of the tribe

Udeocorini from New Zealand and add to the generic des­ cription of Udeocoris Bergroth, particula rly as the

genitalia had not previously been figured or described.

I add a new species, figuring male and female genitalia and describe the brachypterous form as all my specimens were brachypterous. This generated the paper2 which des­ cribes and figures the fifth instar larva of Ud.eocoris

� Eyles 1971 and extends the description of the adult in particular by including the macropterous fo rm.

Lygaeidae : Orsillinae Theme

The publications from my !•iassey thesis on Kysius huttoni have generated further research publications on Orsillinae by the applicant. These are paper nlli�ber

A18 on damage to cultivated Cruciferae, paper A20 on the genus Nysius Dallas in New Zealand, part of the work in paper A21 , and the revision and review of Rhy­ podes which is the second of the three major contri­ butions to this application.

Paper A20 describes a new species of Nysius, the

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1 Scudder, G.G.E. 1975: The genus Stizocephalus �les ( Hemiptera : Lygaeidae ) in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 89-95. 2 Malipatil, M.B. 1975: Immature stages of some New eal � and Rhyparochrominae ( Heteroptera : Lygaeidae ) . dew Zealand Journal of Zoology 2: 381-388. 10

smallest in the world collected by me at :B'ranz Josef

in the So uth Island. From the same locality I also 35 I collected specimens of Brachynysius cor..vexus Using­ er 1942, and later found a fine series of it, incl ud­

ing a macrbpterous male, from nearby Waiho Gorge in

the Natio::1al Museum collection. This confirmed my ear­

lier decision (in paper A15) to synonymise Brachynysius

usinger with Kvsius, but revealed characters enabling

the revalidation of the species convexus (which I had

synor..ymised with huttoni). In tne earlier work only a

single paratype female of  had been available

for study. ::'he three New Zealand species are keyed :in paper A20 using the good, simple characters revealed

in this study. I'he late Professor P. D. Ashloc:.C who at that time had recently published his Ph.D. thesis

work on a generic classification of the Orsillinae of

the world offered to draw the genitalia of the three

species , and to provide co��ents on characters dist- inguishing Nysius from Rhypodes and on characters pec­ 1 uliar to New Zealand species of :;ysi us, so I offered him a coauthorship.

�evelopment of the Rhypodes :n.evision Project

From collecting trips it soon became apparent tlmt

there were many rema rkable new species of ilhypodes. I

collected marq of them over some 12 to 14 years, main­

� fro� 1962 to 1973 inclusive, from remote alpine I ar eas with my colleague� Mr J. I. Tov.-r.send. Twenty-t'Vo I new species are described and added to the five pre- anceps (1\'hite) is 1 Viously :mown members. O!udsona added 11 by the new synonymy of Hudsona Evans ;;,rith Rhypodes.

A range of characters occurs within the genus, some quite bizzare, making. Rhypodes the most remarkable genus in the Orsillinae. Until this study, insuffic- ient species were known for earlier workers to adequ­ ately describe the genus Rhypodes or to define its limits.

Each species is figured with a habitus photograph or drawing, line drawings of male and female genitalia

( except where only one or two specimens were availab­ le) , and often of other parts. The 28 known species are keyed. There is an illustrated section on general morphology, which also lists the most useful diagnos­ tic characters. There are further sections on limits of the genus, comments on tribal classification, num­ erical analysis of phenetic relationships and biology.

One problem involving confusion of three species was solved. R.clavicornis (F.) and R.cognatus Eyles are unusual in that males are narrow and parallel sid­ ed. '.Vhen Usinger1 stated that pr onotal triangles may not be a specific character ( for clavicornis) he no doubt intended the form with narrower males (= cogna­ tus). It is W1fortQDate that until the applicant's review and revision of Rhypodes, through lack of know­ ledge of the group, Usinger's statement led to some confusion and a tendency to lump everything lacking

1 Usinger, R.L. 1942: The Orsillini of New Zealand ( Hemiptera, Lygaeidae ) . Transactions of the Royal Soc- �ety of New Zealand 72: 41-52. triangles in with clavicornis. The material which Usi­

nger included in clavicornis contained more thm< one

species (see remarks \.Ll'lder clavicornis p. 376, cogna-

. � p. 377 and koebelei 5:yles p. 388).

�velopment of the Contributions on the l!i:iridae Theme

The studies on iY1iridae began when the applicant

collected a species of Megaloceroea Fieber in New Ze�

I land which differed from the New Zealand species M.

reuteriana Vlhite and proved to be M. recticornis (Geo­

ffroy ) of Palaearctic and Nearctic distribution. All

five species then remaining in Megaloceroea needed to

be examined. What started out as a study of New Zeal­

and Stenodemini had to be widened to the Australian

reg·ion and still further to include two species from

the Oriental region.

The resu.l ting paper A23 generated further papers

by the applicant on Stenodemini - paper A22 on the

male genitalia and tribal placement of the Tasmanian

and Australian Protomiris Poppius, and paper A24 a rev­

ision of the now near cosmopolitan genus Dolichomiris

Reuter, with a revised key to the genera of Steno dem-

ini.

Jhen the applicant was well into this work, Prof­

essor J. C. M. Carvalho, from Uio de Janeiro, Brazil

visited New Zealand and we worked together for several

weeks, deciding from that point to work as a team. In

; the [email protected] paper Professor Carvalho helped with

the generic redescription, genitalia drawin.:;s of D. bp.­

' 9a:!."is Reuter and offered inclusion of a revised key to I 13

the genera of Stenodemini, so that 'He could publish it

as a joint author paper.

Another result of his 1Tew Zealand visit was our joi­

nt paper (presented by ::'�yles) to the 14th Internation­

al Congress of Entomology in Canberra in 1972 in which

we announced that there are "many more species of JV.ir­ idae in !�ew· Zealand than the 20 at present recorded".

Some are iYl the :Ueraeocorinae, but a large numb er are

in the genus Chinamiris :Joodward ( ;,;irinae ) .

During the period 1976 to 1985 the applicant was

involved with other projects, other than entomology.

The joint papers follow on, generated from the New

Zealand Stenodemini work ( paper A23), describing new

species of Miridae from New Zealand. They are a good

example of two scientists, who worked together briefly,

co-operating at a distance. Paper A25 describes and figures nine new species of Deraeocorinae, with key s

to the New Zealand genera and 12 species of Rornna Kir- 1 kaldy. Paper A26 describes a new genus and species of Mirini from lucerne .

The Chinamiris ?..evision

The preceding work led finally to the revision of I .Qlinamiris '.vhich is third major con-:;ribution of I . the this application. Tvventy-nine new species are descri- I 1 bed, Calocoris laticinctus (::�-alker) is tr c.nsferred to

�:niris and tne 31 species nm•1 knovm in the genus

1 e.re keyed and figured. ':'he wide ra!1ge of characters, including nu.11ber and shape of projections ( when pres- 14

ent) on the ;r.ale genital cap sule, now known from the

many new species, have enabled limits of this genus to

be set. There is an illustrated section on general I morphology, a habitus drawing or photoe:raph of each species, figures of the male genitalia of most species,

a section on host plants, and maps showing the known distribution of the six most abundant species.

The study showed that the species laticinctus was

pr eviously not well known. 'rhere had been a handful of attempts to identify it over the years, but there had

been some confusion as one or two labels appear on

five of the new- species of Chinamiris (see top p. 297).

ACK.�OViLEDGiiiE I-.TTS

Of the th ree major contributions, the Dieuches mon­

ograph and Rhypodes revision are entirely my own orig­

inal research work. Acknowledgments of assistance are

given in both publications, particularly to Dr J. H.

Darwin for running the computer computations for the

numerical taxonomic analysis. ::-Iowever, with the Dieu­

l.£bes 'Nor!{, I am indebted to Professor G. G. E. Scudder

!ror valuable groundwork in tracing type specimens and

ublishing lectotype desienations, for use of his pho­

tographs of type specimens, and for his encouragement

nd stimulating discussions thro�hout the project.

oans of specimens are acknowle'lged in the book, as are r·1v e �oeople v;ho not only loaned speci:nens c some from I ersonal collecting trips) , but provided data on host

lants an d/or habitats, or other helpful information. 15 The third major contribution, the China:.1iris revi­

sion, is a joint paper with Prof essor ;;• C. !{:. Carv­ alho ( Rio de Janeiro ) who is the ',Yorld authority on the rdridae. I gratefully acknowledge his encoure.ge­

ment and valuable input from his knowledge of all mir­

id genera. Due to working from a :iistance his contri­

bution has been about one third of the work.

Suppor ting papers on I�jsius huttoni ( Orsillinae)

from my Jv;. Agr . Sc. thesis (,�assey) and. on some Rhypar­

ochrominae from my Ph. D. thesis ( Ur:.iversi ty of Lon­

don ) personally thank my supervisors, t·:r 1. Gurr and

Professor T. R. �;. Southv,rood, respectively, for guid­

ance and encouragement; these thanks are reiterated her e. Their tr aining set the pattern for the life­

time work on I-Iemipter a, Lygaeidae and iv;iridae, pres­

ented herein. It was my first supervisor, iv·:r L. Gurr,

who kindled my interest in the He,niptera. He taugi1t

me how to get alongside and observe the I vvas

working v1i th, and showed me how to breed and rear the­

se insects. He also taught me how to draw my own ill­

us trations - a feature of most of my papers.

Cf the 40 supporting papers, all except 12 are ent­

irely my own original research contributions. In the

1 12 joint author papers, the applicant played a ma jor

role in all stages of the projects, but gratefully ac-cnowledges contributions of coauthors. In the paper

on the Cicadellidae and Issidae Cro:;Ioptera) of !·7iue

and the Cook Islands , I am indebted to the late Jr R.

Linnavuo ri for his specialist �nowledge of these fam-

I 16

ilies. I tha�k Professor R. E. Blac�ith for his assis­ tance w·ith t�1e statistical wor� in our paper in Evol­ -ution on hybridization in l''ieber ( paper no. A1 0). Finally, in the papers on tl"Le fodder crop

survey, I t!1.ank the late Dr ?•• A. Cumber for assist­

ance with the planning and field. work, and su,__«:gestions

on presentation, i� the first three papers ( by Eyles ) ,

and also for assistance with sorting, identifications

and final preparation of the manuscripts in the fourth

to sixth papers ( by Cumber and Eyles ).

Assistance by colleagues and technical staff of New

zealand Collection in collecting and mount­ 1 ing of specimens is ac�movvledged.

c CI'fl'E:rrs

LIST OF' PUBLICATIONS BY A. C. EYLs:;s

The three major works upon which the D.Sc. applicatio n is based.

1. ;.-; onograph of the genus Dieuches Dohrn ( Heteroptera : Lygaeidae ). By _.:;. C. Eyl es 1973: 465 pp. 337 Figs. �yles, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2. A revision and review of the genus Rhypodes St�l ( Hemiptera : :Gygaeidae ). By .h. C. Eyles 1990. Kew Zealand Journal of Zoology 17: 3L�7-418.

3. R.evision of the genus Chinamiris '.'.'oodward ( Hemipt­ era : Kiridae ) . By A. C. Eyles and J. C. M. Carva­ lho 1991. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 18: 2G7- 321. In this joint paper I am the senior author and did t·::o-thirds of the work.

ilOUP A Papers directly, or more closely sup:0ortinc one of the three major viorks. ( I 17

pap ers directly supporting the �onograph of Jieuches ey r-eeded to be published before th e monograph. I as th Eyles, A. C. 1968 : new Rhyparochrornine genus I A1 . A from ;,]adagascar and Seychelles ( He teroptera : Lyg­ aeidae) . ]\;ew Zealand Journal of Science 11: 318-327.

1968 : A2 . Hidaka, T. ; Eyles, A. C. Dieuches japonicus new name for Dieuches fuscus Hidaka preoccupied ( Eeteroptera : Lygaeidae) . New Zealand Journal of Science 11: 337-341 .

A3 . Eyles, A.C. ; Scudder, G. G.�. 1968 : Cvrtocnemodon, a new genus of ?..hyparochrominae (:ieteroptera : Lyg­ aeidae ). New Zealand Jo urnal of Science 11: 363-370.

/14. Eyles, li. C. 1969 : 1'he validity of Dieuches occid­ entalis from Arizona. New Zealand Journal of Sci­ ence 12: 728-731 .

Papers clos ely supporting the Dieuches work :- other publi shed wor� on Lygaeidae, sub family Rhyp arochrominae.

Publications from my Ph . D. thesis are marked  .

A5�' 3yl es, A. C. 1963 : Life hi stories of some :a.hyparo­ chrominae (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae). 7ransactions of the Society for British Entomology 15: 135- 166.

A6� ------1963 : Some notes on natural enemies of Lygaeidae (Hem. ) . Entomologi st' s monthly maga zine 98 : 226-227 .

A7t ------1963 : Descriptions of the immature sta­ ges of five Rhyparochrominae (He teroptera : Lyga­ eidae). Transactions of the Society:fur' British -;:;ntomology ·1 5: 277-2 94.

8. ------1964-: The identity of specimens of Sco­ lopostethus I<' ieber and :;rymus :;:;ieber (l-ieteropt.era, Lygaei::lae) in the Zool ogical i. useui11, Cslo, ;;ith habit�t notes, distributions , and a ne� record of "J 'ra-oezo::-_otus dssertJ.s 3eidenst"...lcker fr on: I. or;;ay. rorsk ;�r.to:nol ol'dsk I'idss�r ift XII : 219-223 .

A9� ------1964- : Feeding habits of some ?..hyparo­ chrominae ( ::-�eteroptera : lygaeidae ) with particu­ lar reference to the value of natural foods. 'ITan - 18

sactions of the �oya l Entomol ogi cal Society of London 116: 39-11�.

A10t Eyles, J.•• C. ; blac�ith, �l.E. 1965: Studies on hyb­ ridi zation in Scol opo stethu� Fieber (Heter optera : Lygaei dae ) . Evolution 19TIJ: 4-65-lt-79 .

A11 . Eyles, A. C. 1967: TYw new genera and five new species of Targaremini fr om N"ew Zealand, with a key to the genera of rargaremini (Heteroptera : Lygaei dae ) . New Zealand Journal of Science 10: 4-07-423.

A12 . S cudder, G.C',..E. ; Syles, A.C. 1968: A new sp ecies of �lasmolomus ('1etero?tera : Lygaeidae ) fr om Australia. New Zealand Journal of Science 11: 6 18-622.

A1 3. Eyles , A.C. 1970: i\n endemic genus of Rhyparoch­ r omini (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae ) from New Ze al­ and . New Zeal and Journal of Science 13 : 500-504.

A14- . ------1971: A new species of Ude ocorini (Lygaeidae : R.hyparo chrominae ) from New Zealand . Xew Zealand Journal of Science 14: 252-258.

Papers cl osely supporting the H.�'lpodes revision:­ other published work on Lygaeidae, subfamily Orsilli­ nae of New Zealand.

Publicatior..s fro.. my M . Agr . Sc . thesis ar e mark ed +.

1 5t Eyles, .b. . C. 1960: ·rariation in the adult and imm­ ature stages of Nys ius huttoni :'.bite (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae ) wi th a note on the validi ty of the genus Brachynysiu� usinger . 'Lr<':.nsactions of th� Roya l �ntomological Society of London 112:53-72.

I A'1 6t ------·- - 1963: fecundity and oviposition d�J­ t:.::1s :!.:-.. : .· sius i1uttoni ;·.',:; i te (Eeteroptere. : I.�•g­ aei iE.e ). r;ew :,ee:).£! '1d .)ournal of ;;: cie:cce 6: 18�- 207.

· A1. 7+• I ------1963 : Inc:Jb:.tion period a11d n:,TT!lphal :J.evsl opme:1t in l�ysius huttoni -:�hi te (51 eter o_ptera : J... yg aeidae : Crsill ina e). ��e?: Zeal;:mJ J ourr:al of Scier-ce 6: 1+4-6 -4-6 1 .

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�yles, A. C. 1965 : Da�age to cultivated Crucifer­ ae by r\ys i us huttoni :;n.ite ( !feterop tera : Lygae­ idae ) . Eew Zealand Jo�nal of .o.[:ricultural Res e­ ar ch 8: 363-366.

------1965 : Notes on the <:" col ogy of :'�ys ius hut toni ·,Vhi te ( Hetero:tJtera : Lygaeidae ) . New Zeala�d J ournal of Scie�ce 8: 494--5C2. A20. 3yles, A. C.; Ashlock, P.D. 1969 : The genus �ys i� in �evv ZealaJld ( �e teroptera : Lygae i dae ) . New Zeala�d Journal of Science 12: 713-727 .

A2 1. Eyles, A. C. 1974- : Ins ects : terrestrial bugs . New Zealand 's na ture heritage 3(34-): 953 -956 .

Pap er s closely supporting the Chinarr,iris revision:­ other published work on i1�iridae , mainly from Kew Zea­ land.

A22. �yles, A.C. 1973 : Pr otomiris transferred to Orth­ otylinae ( He teroptera : iV.iridae ) . Ne·."l Zealand Entomologi st 5(3 � 4-) : 313-316. A23. ------1975 : J.' urther new genera and other new combinations for species previously a s s igned to Me,al oceroea ( Heteroptera : Miridae : Stenod­ emini • Journal of natural history 9: 153-1 67 •

. 24-. Eyles, A. C. ; Carvalho J.C.M. 1975: �evision of the genus Dolichomiris, with a revi sed key to the cse:nera of Stenodemini ( Heteroptera : !'.:iridae ) . Journal of natural history 9: 257 -269.

- A25 . ------1988: Deraeocorinae of l':e·.v Zealand ( illiridae : He ter optera) . I\ew Zea- land Journal of Zoology 15: 63-80.

- - - �6 . ------1988 : A new genus of l\'�irini ( Heteroptera lv:iridae ) from lucerne crops in New Zealand . Hew Zealand Journal of Zoology 15: 339-34-1.

I 'o o r -p B � �v-�__ Other Eemiptera papers and other entomology · Papers .

31 . t:yl es , A. C. 1960: Insects associated with the maj­ or fodder crop s in the .:-iorth Isl a:::.d . Hemipt- I II . 20

era. ?ew Zealand Journal of Agr ic;ll tur al Re s ear cc 2_: 994- 1 008.

1 B2. Eyles, A. C. 1971 : 'l'he family lvi e:nb racidae (Homopt­ era) p r e s e nt in � e·n Zealand . N·e·N Ze aland Entomol­ ogist 5(1 ): 47-48 .

------1970: Hem te r . . 34-37 B3 . ip a pp In S:ymp os­ ium: The pre s ent status of taxonomic entomology in New Zealand . �ew Zealand Entomologist 4(3): 24-61 .

B4 . ------197 1: Li s t of IsornetopLlae ( H e te r op - ter a : Cimic oidea) . New Z ealand Journal of Sci- ence 14: 940-944. - -- B5 . ------1972 : Suppl ement to list of I s omet o - pidae (:feteroptera : C imico idea ) . New Zealand Journal of Science 1 5: 46 3-Lt-64.

B6 . :r;;yles, A.C.; Linnavuori , :a. 1974: Cicadellidae and I s s idae (Homoptera) of Niue Island, and mat ­ erial from the Cook Islands . ·New Zealand J ournal of Zool ogy 1: 29-44.

B7 . Eyle s, A.C. 1960: I ns ects associated with the maj ­ or fodder crops in the North Island. I. The gen ­ eral pic ture . New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Re s ear ch 3: 779-791.

B8. ------1961 : Insects associated with the maj­ or fodder crops in the North Island. III. Coleop­ tera. New Zealand Journal of Agr i cul tur al Resea ­ rch 4: 129-140.

B9 . Cumber , :Et.A. ; Eyle s, .A.C. 1961 : Ins ects associat­ ed with the ma jor fodder crops in the North Island . IV. Hy menoptera. fT ew Zealand J ournal of Agr icul t­ ural Ll.esearch 4: 390-408 .

-- B10, ------1 961 : Insects associat­ ed ,.,i.th the ma jor fodder cr op s in th e North Island. V. Dip tera . New Zealand Journal of Agri cultur al Research 4: l.t-09-42 5.

B1 1, ------196 1: Insects as s oci at­ ed ',\i. th the major fodder crops in the North Island. VI. Odona ta, Ort£10ptera, Is op tera , ?s o c opte ra, Thysanop t er a , E e ur op t era , Le:? idop tera . r;ew Zeal - 21

and Journal of A�ricultural Resea!'ch 4: 42 6-440.

B12. Eyles, A.C. 1965 : Ob s ervations on some parasites of t'.V O Wis eana species ( Lep . : Hepial idae ) . J';ew Zealand Journal of .':..gr icultural Research 8: 951 - 958. - - B1 3. ------1966 : A predator on �iseana ( Lep . : Hepialidae ) . IIew Zealand Journal of Agr icultural Research 9: 699-703 .

B14. ------1973 : Prey of the Staphyl inid Thyr e­ ocephalus chloropt erus ( Coleoptera) . Kew Zealand Entomol ogist 5(3 & 4): 341 -342 .

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