The Indian Mecistoscelini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review Author Yeshwanth, H. M. Author Chérot, F. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-12-13 4711 1 157 174 journal article 24634 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.6 0ef40b53-d24b-4032-bff6-a66512599336 1175-5326 3573524 4D1DFA87-BCB3-4807-A9E9-17456B8C7207 Mecistoscelini Reuter, 1910 Mecistoscelaria Reuter, 1910: 129 , 131 (as new “division”). Mecistoscelini : Carvalho 1952: 133–134 (as tribe, emendation); Lansbury 1963: 1 (taxonomy); Pathak 1969: 16 (diagnosis, Indian genera and species; key of genera); Schwartz 1987: 50– 52 (diagnosis); Schuh 1995: 683–684 (catalog); Chérot 2003: 25–39 (phylogeny); Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog); Kim & Jung 2019: 6 (phylogeny of Mirinae ). Mecistoscelidini : Kerzhner & Josifov in Aukema & Rieger 1999: 202 (catalog) (emendation) [according to a personal communication ( in litt. ) of the late I. M. Kerzhner to the second author, this emendation was justified under the rules of the third edition (1985) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, but not under the corresponding rules of the fourth edition (1999), published just after finalization of the Palaearctic catalog]; Zheng et al . 2005: 62–63 , 683 (Chinese fauna); Aukema, Rieger & Rabitsch 2013: 242–243 (catalog). Diagnosis. Body, appendages, antenna and legs elongate and thin ( Figs 1–8 ); metatibia frequently longer than body. Head in dorsal view wide and relatively short. Posterior margin of vertex not carinate, sulcate, sulcus with a distinct fovea. Mandibular plate frequently tuberculate. Eyes large, protruding. First antennal segment elongate, at least as long as head and pronotum together. Second and third antennal segments frequently relatively elongate. Pronotal collar distinct, complete, elongate and rounded, shorter laterally than medially, its posterior suture obscure laterally and ventrally ( Schwartz 1987 ). Clavus and exocorium with a row of deep punctures. First segment of metatarsi as long as or longer than second and third segments together.