The plant bugs of the Prairie Provinces of Canada

I gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the superintendents and wardens of Waterton, Banff, Jasper, and Riding Mountain national parks while I was working in the parks in 1970 and 7912, and of D. Allen, Director, and G. Schumann, technical supervisor, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Falcon Beach, Man. [...] This group of bugs is not well known in Canada, particularly in the northern areas of the Prairie Provinces, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. [...] The aim of this report is to help the economic entomologists and other field workers in the Prairie Provinces and elsewhere to identify the species of this important group of plant bugs so often encountered in field surveys and control programs. [...] With the publication of A catalogue of the Miridae of the world by Carvalho (1951-1959), and subsequent publications by Kelton (see References), Kelton and Knight (1962), Knight (1974), and Kelton and Herring (1978),45 species have been reported from the Prairie Provinces. [...] The known habitats and the distribution of the species are given.