Engytatus Explained

Engytatus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are more than 20 described species in Engytatus.

Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Engytatus:

• Engytatus acuminatus (Knight, 1938)
• Engytatus affinis (Gagne, 1968)
• Engytatus andinus (Carvalho & Becker, 1958)
• Engytatus arida (Gagne, 1968)
• Engytatus aristidesi (Carvalho, 1975)
• Engytatus confusa (Perkins, 1912)
• Engytatus cyrtandrae (Gagné, 1969)
• Engytatus floreanae (Gagne, 1968)
• Engytatus gummiferae (Gagne, 1968)
• Engytatus hawaiiensis (Kirkaldy, 1902)
• Engytatus helleri (Gagne, 1968)
• Engytatus itatiaianus (Carvalho, 1980)
• Engytatus lacteus (Spinola, 1852)
• Engytatus lysimachiae (Carvalho & Usinger, 1960)
• Engytatus marquesanus (Knight, 1938)
• Engytatus minutus (Knight, 1938)
• Engytatus modestus (Distant, 1893) (tomato bug)
• Engytatus nicotianae (Koningsberger, 1903)
• Engytatus perplexa (Gagné, 1969)
• Engytatus phyllostegiae (Carvalho & Usinger, 1960)
• Engytatus quitoensis (Carvalho & Gomes, 1968)
• Engytatus rubescens (Distant, 1884)
• Engytatus seorsus (Van Duzee, 1934)
• Engytatus sidae (Gagné, 1969)
• Engytatus similaris (Carvalho, 1947)
• Engytatus terminalis (Gagné, 1969)
• Engytatus tuberculatus (Knight, 1938)
• Engytatus varians (Distant, 1884)

Further reading

• Book: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 3: Cimicimorpha II: Miridae. 1999. Kerzhner . I. M.. Josifov . M.. Aukema . Berend. Rieger . Christian. The Netherlands Entomological Society. 978-90-71912-19-1.
• Web site: 2019-07-02. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs. American Museum of Natural History.
• Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis. 2009. Schuh . Randall T.. Weirauch . Christiane. Wheeler . Ward C.. Systematic Entomology. 34. 1. 15–48. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. 10.1.1.498.8756.