Micracanthia Reuter, 1912

Polhemus, John T. & Polhemus, Dan A., 2012, Guide To The Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia. Viii. Leptopodomorpha, Families Saldidae, Leptopodidae, And Omaniidae, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (2), pp. 329-341 : 339

Genus Micracanthia Reuter, 1912

Discussion. — Some question remains as to the status of this genus in relation to Saldula . The major character separating these two genera, as presented in J. Polhemus (1985), is the reduction of venation in the corium of the forewing of Micracanthia , in which only the radial and medial veins are present. Lindskog (1986) considered this diagnostically reduced corial venation to be a potentially homoplasious character and provided evidence that such reductions were also present in some species that he felt were more properly assigned to Saldula . Given that this character does hold for the species in the region under study, however, we retain these two genera as separate in the context of the present work.