Guide To The Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia. Viii. Leptopodomorpha, Families Saldidae, Leptopodidae, And Omaniidae
Author
Polhemus, John T.
Author
Polhemus, Dan A.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2012
2012-08-31
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5348097
2345-7600
5348097
Genus
Micracanthia
Reuter, 1912
Discussion.
— Some question remains as to the status of this genus in relation to
Saldula
. The major character separating these two genera, as presented in J.
Polhemus (1985)
, is the reduction of venation in the corium of the forewing of
Micracanthia
, in which only the radial and medial veins are present.
Lindskog (1986)
considered this diagnostically reduced corial venation to be a potentially homoplasious character and provided evidence that such reductions were also present in some species that he felt were more properly assigned to
Saldula
. Given that this character does hold for the species in the region under study, however, we retain these two genera as separate in the context of the present work.