Resurrection of the Pronotocrepini Knight, with Revisions of the Nearctic Genera Orectoderus Uhler, Pronotocrepis Knight, and Teleorhinus Uhler, and Comments on the Palearctic Ethelastia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
Wyniger, Denise
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American Museum Novitates
2010
2010-12-10
2010
3703
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3703.2
journal article
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10.1206/3703.2
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PRONOTOCREPINI KNIGHT
Pronotocrepini
Knight, 1929: 217
(new tribe).
REDIAGNOSIS: General aspect elongate or slightly ovoid; females sometimes brachypterous and myrmecomorphic; head sometimes oblique; vertex nearly vertical; clypeus visible in dorsal view, usually prominent; second antennal segment inflated at least distally, sometimes strongly so; pronotum with collarlike, flattened, finely upturned anterior margin, flat or swollen calli, shiny or dull surface, and sometimes rugose or with explanate lateral margins; hemelytra either completely fuscous or fuscous with pale or red pattern; vestiture of either pale or dark simple setae; male genitalia with large, strongly sclerotized vesica, and part apical to secondary gonopore bent, tapering to narrow point or blunt knob, without lateral processes; secondary gonopore well developed, usually with denticulate lobes laterally, usually not recognizable as closed ring; female genitalia usually with large sclerotized rings on dorsal labiate plate; posterior wall with bifurcate interramal sclerites, sometimes with medioposterior sclerotized process.