A new species of Isometopus Fieber, the first record of Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Thailand

摘要

The isometopine plant bug genus Isometopus Fieber currently comprises 69 nominal species (Schuh, 1995). The majority of the members are known to occur in the Old World tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zone; 26 species have been reported from theAfrotropical Region, and Asian faunas documented mainly by Lin (2004) [Taiwan], Ren (1991) and Ren & Yang (1988) [China], Yasunaga (2001, 2005) [Japan], and Yasunaga & Duwal (2006) [Nepal]. However, there is no reliable account of the Isometopinae fromThailand, or Indochina.During our continuing field investigations in Thailand, two specimens of an undescribed species of the genus Isometopus, were recently collected by a light trap. We herein describe it as new; the present discovery also represents the first distributional record of the subfamily Isometopinae from Indochina.