Holhymenia Le Peletier and Serville 1825

Genus Holhymenia Le Peletier and Serville, 1825

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1825 Holhymenia Le Peletier & Serville, 61. Type species: Holhymenia latreillei Le Peletier & Serville, monotypic.

Diagnosis. (After Osuna, 1984) Body with dorsal surface black or dark brown with yellow markings. Hemelytra with dark brown venation. Head with dorsal surface black or dark brown, usually with yellow spots; antennal segments I, II and III black, segment IV black distally. Head wider than long, depressed behind the ocelli, tylus and juga below the level of antenniferous tubercles, antennal segment I longer than head, segments II and III with expansions flattened anterior and posteriorly, labium length variable not reaching beyond the sternite V. Pronotum slightly inclined and strongly punctuated; sinuous lateral edges. Scutellum elongate with or without sparse punctures. Antero-internal face of apical half of the femur armed with row of 2 to 6 spines, tibia with narrow external expansion restricted to their basal third. Pygophore subproctigenal sac compact, with entire margins, inner edge slightly curved. Paramere straight hook simple, curved postero-latero-dorsally. Spermatheca with the base strongly swollen, capitate terminal bulb.