{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Miridae - Liocoris tripustulatus-1.JPG | image_caption = ''Liocoris tripustulatus'' | taxon = Liocoris | authority = Fieber, 1858 }}

'''''Liocoris''''' is a genus of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae. It has only one species.

In 1955 it was briefly considered as the home of the "''Lygus'' bugs" due to the morphological studies of Leonard A. Kelton,<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Kelton, Leonard A.|year=1955 |title=Genera and subgenera of the ''Lygus'' complex (Hemiptera: Miridae)|journal=The Canadian Entomologist|volume=87|issue=7|pages=277–301|doi=10.4039/ent87277-7}}</ref> but the decision of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) in 1963<ref>International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Opinion 667 (1963)</ref> allowed them to stay in genus ''Lygus''.<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Henry, Thomas J. |author2=Lattin, J. D. |name-list-style=amp|year=1987|chapter=Taxonomic status, biological attributes, and recommendations for future work on the genus ''Lygus'' (Heteroptera: Miridae)|editor1=Hedlund, R. C. |editor2=Graham, H. M. |title=Economic Importance and Biological Control of Lygus and Adelphocoris in North America|series=(ARS-64)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture|pages=54&ndash;68|url=http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/pubs/pdf/pub1875.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123184730/http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/pubs/pdf/pub1875.pdf|archive-date=23 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The species that Kenton described in 1955 as ''Liocoris'' are now classified as ''Lygus''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Kelton, Leonard A.|year=1975 |title=The lygus bugs (genus ''Lygus'' Hahn) of North America (Heteroptera: Miridae)|journal=Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada|volume=95|pages=1&ndash;101|doi=10.4039/entm10795fv}}</ref>

==Species== * ''Liocoris tripustulatus'' <small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small>

===Reclassified=== * ''Liocoris borealis'' is now ''Lygus borealis'' <small>(Kelton, 1955)</small> * ''Liocoris rufidorsus'' is now ''Lygus rufidorsus'' <small>(Kelton, 1955)</small> * ''Liocoris unctuosus'' is now ''Lygus unctuosus'' <small>(Kelton, 1955)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id72670/ ''BioLib''] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150419184000/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452118 ''Fauna Europaea'']

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Category:Miridae genera Category:Mirini

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