The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands Author Tatarnic, Nikolai J. Author Cassis, Gerasimos text Zootaxa 2011 2967 21 43 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.207009 59bd5b61-1e06-4ec7-9458-40dba5139042 1175-5326 207009 Empicoris Wolff 1811 Empicoris Wolff 1811 : 167 –208 [exact page unknown] (new genus, type species: Cimex vagabundus Linné 1758 , by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966 : 366 (description); Maldonaldo 1990: 145 (catalogue); Cassis and Gross 1995 : 301 (catalogue). Ploiariodes White, 1881 : 58 (new genus, type species: Ploiariodes whitei Blackburn 1881 , by monotypy); Bergroth 1909 :324 (synonymy). Ploiariola Reuter, 1888: 711 (replacement name for Ploiaria Latreille : nec Scopoli, type species: Cimex vagabundus Linné 1758 , by monotypy); McAtee & Malloch 1922 : 95 (synonymised with Ploiariodes ). Corempis Dispons , in Dispons & Stichel, 1959 : 83 , 85 (new genus, type species: Ploiaria xambeui Montandon 1885 , by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966 : 366 (synonymy). Empicorella Dispons , in Dispons & Stichel, 1959 : 83 , 87 (new genus, type species: Empicorella tingitanus Dispons 1955 (= Empicoris rubromaculatus Blackburn 1889 ), by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966 : 366 (synonymy). Diagnosis. In Australia , this genus is recognised by the following: scutellum, metanotum and first visible abdominal tergite (T2) with a median spine; head and thorax clothed with dense wool-like setae; pronotum with longitudinal carinae laterally; forewing without a sub-basal cell; and pterostigma extending beyond apex of discal cell. Remarks. Empicoris is a cosmopolitan genus comprising approximately 81 described species ( Maldonado 1990 ; Tatarnic et al. 2011 ), with the greatest diversity occurring in the Eastern Hemisphere. The delineation of species from this region remains poorly resolved. McAtee and Malloch (1922 , 1925 ) revised the Philippine fauna and gave adequate descriptions of some of the species. Wygodzinsky (1966) reviewed the world fauna but gave little more than a listing of most of the Eastern Hemisphere species. The genus is represented in Australia by three endemic species plus the cosmopolitan E. rubromaculatus .