Calisius Stål, 1860

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Genus Calisius Stål, 1860

Calisius Stål, 1860 . Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 2(7): 67. Type-species: Calisius papillpes Stål monobasic. Aradosyrtis Costa, 1864 . Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Universitá di Napoli, 2: 132. Type-species: Aradosyrtis Ghiliani Costa, monobasic. Synonimized by Bergroth, 1894. Entomol. Tidsk., 15: 98.

Diagnosis: body oblong-oval but not very broad, with abdomen round; head about as long as wide, or in a few species, much shorter; pronotum usually with a distinct anterior collar and a faint to distinct transverse impression across middle, the disk with four longitudinal rows of tubercles, lateral margins with prominent tubercles, posterior margin sinuate; scutellum with four tubercles more or less distinct at base and overlapping slightly the base of pronotum; abdomen very diverse in form but almost always with a lower row of tubercles on connexival edges, three to each segment.