Wheeler, A.G., & Henry, T.J. 2005 Description of the adult and fifth instar of a myrmecomorphic plant bug, Bicuspidatiella conica Maldonado (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorenae), with notes on its habits.. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107(1): 209-213.

Notes: The deraeocorine plant bug Bicuspidatiella conica Maldonado, belonging, to a monotypic genus in the tribe Hyaliodini, has been known only from five adults taken at three localities in Puerto Rico. Previous biological information consists of a record from guaba (Inga vera Willd.). The fifth instar and adult of this myrmecomorphic mirid, collected at Cayey, Puerto Rico, are described and figured. The species was found on laurel amarillo (Nectandra turbacensis (Kunth) Nees) in association with the formicine ant Myrmelachista ramulorum. Wheeler, the ant-attended mealybug Nipaecoccus nipae (Maskell) (Pseudococcidae), the soft scale Coccus moestus De Lotto (Coccidae), and an unidentified whitefly (Aleyrodidae). Bicuspidatiella conica, a member of an almost exclusively predacious group, probably feeds on ant-attended sternorrhynchans.