title: New synonymies in the plant bug family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Northern China.
abstract: The plant bug fauna of China is highly diverse and relatively poorly documented, with almost 900 currently known species, about a half of which had been revealed during the last two decades (Qi et al. 2003, 2007, Konstantinov & Namyatova 2008, 2009, Konstantinov et al. 2013). Future studies would almost certainly reveal many new species from the region. However, the present day distributions of Chinese plant bugs apparently reflect significant climate change since the Tertiary Period, and are largely influenced by influx of species from other regions. Particularly, the plant bug fauna of the Northwestern China is most similar to the faunas of Central Asia and Mongolia, having almost identical generic composition and sharing many common species (Kerzhner & Josifov 1999). This paper provides seven new synonymies of Miridae originally known from Central Asia and Mongolia and recently described as new from the Northern China.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.. f.konstantinov@spbu.ru.
authors.forename: Fedor V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Konstantinov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D002965:Classification; D057231:Climate Change; D020062:Heteroptera / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: Hemiptera, Heteroptera