PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 105(2). 2003. pp. 425-440 MIRIDAE (HETEROPTERA) RECORDED FROM CHINA SINCE THE 1995 WORLD CATALOG BY R. T. SCHIIH Baoying Qi. C.'\rl W. Schaefer, Nonnaizab Bai. and Zhemin Zheng (BQ, ZZ) Institute of Zoology. College of Biological Science. Shaanxi Normal Uni-versity. Xi'an. 710062, People's Republic of China; (CWS) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A.; (BQ, NB) Department of Biology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhe-hot, 010022, Peo-ple's Republic of China Abstract. — A list of described and recorded species of Miridae from China since the 1995 world catalog of plant bugs by R. T. Schuh is presented. Information about descrip-tions, figures, distributions, type specimens, host plants, and references are listed in order to guide further studies on these insects. AV\' Words: list, Heteroptera, Miridae, China Miridae, the largest family in hemipteran suborder Heteroptera, contains about 10,000 species, belonging to eight subfam-ilies, about 30 tribes, and more than 1 ,000 genera (Schuh 1995, Schuh and Slater 1995). In 1995, Schuh published his fine world catalog of mirids, which followed Carvalho's world catalog (1952-1960). In 1995, Zheng published a list of Chinese mirids described since Carvalho's catalog. Because the mirid fauna of China is large, very interesting, and not wholly known, de-scriptions of new mirids have continued to be published since Schuh ( 1995) and Zheng (1995). We have gathered these post 1995 de-scriptions, checked them, and present here a list of 215 species described or recorded from China since 1994. The list includes 4 genera, 125 species, I subspecies, and 44 records new for China, and 45 combina-tional or nomenclatorial changes. Abbreviations used: BML: The Natural History Museum, London; DBNU: Depart-ment of Biology, Tiejin Nankai University; DPPBAN: Department of Plant Protection, Beijing Agricultural University; HNHM: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Bu-dapest, Hungary; HUESJ: Hokkaido Uni-versity of Education, Sapporo, Japan; DBIMNU: Department of Biology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, China; IZAS: Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Bei-jing; NSMT: National Science Museum (National History), Tokyo, Japan; NWAU: Northwestern Agricultural University, Yan-gling, Shaanxi Province, China; TNHM: Tianjin Natural History Museum, Tianjin; USNM: National Museum of Natural His-tory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; ZIRASP: Zoological Institute, Rus-sian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg; BJ: Beijing; GD: Guangdong Province; GS: Gansu Province; GX: Guangxi Province; FJ: Fujian Province; HEB: Hebei Province; HEN: Henan Province; HLJ: Heik)ngjiang Province; HN: Hainan Province; HUB: Hu-bei Province; HUN; Hunan Province; IM Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; JL Jijin Province; LN: Liaoning Province; NX Ningxia Province; QH: Qinghai Province; SAX: Shaanxi Province; TW: Taiwan Prov-
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