Mecistoscelini Reuter, 1910

Yeshwanth, H. M. & Chérot, F., 2019, The Indian Mecistoscelini (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirinae): A preliminary review, Zootaxa 4711 (1), pp. 157-174 : 158

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.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Habitus in dorsal view of several Mecistoscelini. 1. Mecistoscelis scirtetoides Reuter, 1891. Male, 2–3. Mecistosceloides tonkinensis Carvalho, 1992. 2. Male, 3. Female, 4–5. Mystilus antrami Distant, 1909 displaying variations in pronotal collar coloration., 6. Mystilus carinatus Lansbury, 1963. 7–8. Mystilus manipurensis n. sp. 7. Male, 8. Female.