Bertsa

Bertsa is a genus of true bugs in the family Miridae.

Bertsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Miridae
Tribe: Mirini
Genus: Bertsa
Kirkaldy, 1904[1]
Synonyms[2][3]

Berta Kirkaldy 1902[4]

Characteristics

Elongated oval shaped body, attenna with four segments.[1] The white band on the dorsal of the insect marks the difference between this genus with others within the same tribus.[5]:482[6]

Distribution

This genus is distributed in warmer area of East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia. They have been found from Japan[5]:472 to South Korea[5]:469, Mainland China[5]:469 and Hong Kong[6]。

Species

So far only two species have been described:

  • Bertsa lankana (Kirby, 1891): Seen only in the warmest provinces of South Korea[5]:469, southern provinces of Mainland China[1][5]:469, Taiwan,[7][8] as well as the area spanning from Indonesia to Sri Lanka.[5]:472
  • Bertsa major Zheng, 2004[1]
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References
  1. "各论 三、盲蝽族 Mirini Hahn, 1833 19. 隆胸盲蝽属Bertsa Kirkaldy, 1904". Fauna Sinica. Insecta Vol. 33. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  2. "Betacallis". p. 423. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  3. "?". Entomologist. 37: 280.
  4. J. Bombay nat. Hist., Soc. 14, 57.
  5. Oh, Min Suk; Yasunaga, Tomo; Duwal, Ram Keshari; Lee, Seung Hwan (August 2018). "Annotated checklist of the plant bug tribe Mirini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) recorded on the Korean Peninsula, with descriptions of three new species". European Journal of Entomology. 115 (3): 467–492. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  6. "Bertsa observed by chanddgreen at July 1st, 2018". iNaturalist.org. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  7. "Bertsa lankana (Körby, 1891) ". TaiBIF. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  8. "Bertsa lankana (Körby, 1891)". TaiBNET. Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia_Sinica.


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