Listado De Tingidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) De Venezuela (original) (raw)

The tingids or lace bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha: Tingidae) are small sized insects with phytophagous habits and a cosmopolitan distribution, and some taxa are of agriculture importance. In this paper, a revised and updated checklist of the family Tingidae registered from Venezuela is presented and discussed. Up to now, 67 lace bugs species have been recorded, distributed into 3 subfamilies, 3 tribes and 26 genera, including subfamily Cantacaderinae, Tribe Phatnomatini, genera Zetekella (1 species) and Phatnoma (2 species); subfamily Tinginae, Tribe Litadeini, genus Stragulotingis (2 species); and the Tribe Tingini, genera Acanthocheila (1 species), Amblystira (3 species), Atheas (1 species), Corythaica (4 species), Corythucha (6 species), Dictyla (5 species), Dyspharsa (1 species), Eurypharsa (1 species), Gargaphia (4 species), Leptocysta (1 species), Leptodictya (4 species), Leptopharsa (5 species), Pachycysta (2 especies), Paraceratotingis (1 species), Phymacysta (1...