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Nicostratus Distant 1904

Description

Nicostratus Distant, 1904

Nicostratus Distant, 1904: 475 (n. gen.); Carvalho, 1952: 70; Carvalho, 1958: 174; Schuh, 1974: 317. Type species: Nicostratus balteatus Distant, 1904.

Diagnosis: Myrmecomorphic; body elongate; head nearly globose, eyes large; antennal segment I much shorter than head, II incrassate towards apex, III slightly longer than IV; labium extending to procoxae; anterior lobe of pronotum strongly constricted and narrow, posterior lobe globose and wide, posterior margin slightly concavely sinuate; calli divergent, elevated; scutellum elevated; margins of clavus deflected; lateral margins of corium concavely sinuate; embolium deflexed along emboliar-corial suture, wide apically; cuneus deflected, longer than wide; membrane passing well beyond apex of abdomen; legs slender; hind femora incrassate towards apex.

Claval commissural lateral margin length 0.53–0.60 0.60 0.65–0.71 0.68–0.71

Notes

Published as part of Xu, Jing-Yang & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2007, The genus Nicostratus Distant from China (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae), pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1467 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176591

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Nicostratus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nicostratus Distant, 1904 sec. Xu & Liu, 2007

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1904) Rhynchota. Vol II. (Heteroptera). In: W. T. Blanford (Ed.), Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, 412 - 488.
  • Carvalho, J. C. M. (1952) On the major classification of the Miridae (Hemiptera). (With keys to subfamilies and tribes and a catalogue of the world genera). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 24, 31 - 110.
  • Carvalho, J. C. M. (1958) A catalogue of the Miridae of the world. Part II. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 45, 216 pp.
  • Schuh, R. T. (1974) The Orthotylinae and Phylinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) of South Africa with a phylogenetic analysis of the ant-mimetic tribes of the two subfamilies for the world. Entomologica Americana, 47, 1 - 332.