HETEROPTERA

G.G.E. Scudder

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

A catalogue of the Heteroptera of Canada and the Continental United States (Henry and Froeschner 1988) provides full systematic references and synoptic information on the taxa in the Nearctic, and updated information on the distribution and sources for keys on the Canadian fauna is contained in Maw et al. (1998). Schuh and Slater (1995) discuss classification and natural history, and provide keys to infraorders, superfamilies, families and subfamilies of the world. Families and most of the genera of Heteroptera in the Montane Cordillera can be keyed using Slater and Baranowski (1978). Additional keys are available for many taxa, and these have been detailed by Scudder (1997). Most important are the publication by Brooks and Kelton (1967) (aquatic and semiaquatic bugs), Hungerford (1948) (Corixidae), Kelton (1980) (Miridae), Kelton (1978) (Anthocoridae), Matsuda (1977) (Aradidae), and McPherson (1982) (Pentatomoidea). There is no concise and convenient systematic treatment of the whole of the Heteroptera of Western Canada, although the Miridae of the Canadian Pacific Northwest are being monographed by Schwartz and Scudder.

Early annotated checklists for British Columbia (Downes 1927, 1935) and Alberta (Strickland 1953) provide some distribution records, with an updated distribution of the aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera of British Columbia documented by Scudder (1977). Other specialized systematic papers give the distribution of some other taxa, but an up to date published account of the distribution of the species distributions is not available. However, a full georeferenced electronic record for the whole of the Heteroptera of British Columbia is in preparation by the author.