Database Details : On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) |
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| Short name: | PBI Plant Bug |
| Version: | Mar 2013 |
| Release date: | 2016-01-11 |
| Authors/editors: | Schuh R.T. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Hemiptera - Miroidea - Miridae |
| English name of the group: | Plant bugs |
| Number of living species | 11,138 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 8,687 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 19,825 |
| Abstract: | The Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) for Plant Bugs provides a resource about the global plant bug subfamilies Orthotylinae and Phylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) to systematists, insect ecologists, conservation biologists, the general public, and students via the Internet. The database was made possible with the generous support from the National Science Foundation in 2003-2011. |
| Organization: | The American Museum of Natural History, New York NY, USA |
| Website: |
http://research.amnh.org/pbi/index.html |
| Bibliographic citation: | Schuh R.T. (2017). PBI Plant Bug: On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) (version Mar 2013). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |