Brachycoleus, Fieber, 1858

Zamani, Mozhgan & Hosseini, Reza, 2022, A phylogenetic study of the relationships within Mirinae subfamily (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) based on specimens from Northern Iran: Insight into analyses of genera complexes, Zootaxa 5200 (2), pp. 101-127 : 106

Brachycoleus genus

( Fig. 2 , node 18).

The genus comprises ten species known from the Palearctic region (Hosseini & Mohammadi 2019, Aukema 2020) with four species reported from Iran. Brachycoleus is found to be monophyletic in both analyses with moderate support (IW= 62%, EW= 66%). This clade is supported by a unique synapomorphy (20-0) and four other morphological characters including: swollen frons (7-1), left paramere apophysis, subapically expanded (58-1), median process of posterior wall present/small (86-1) and dorsal margin of second valvula edentate or ventral margin moderately dentate (89-0). In the present study, the monophyly of Brachycoleus is studied for the first time.

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FIGURE. 2. Most parsimonious tree obtained from the analysis using implied weights, K= 8. Node numbers correspond to nodes in the results section. Filled circles represent non-homoplasious characters, and open circles represent homoplasious characters.