Eccritotarsini (1884) Berg

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 213-214

Key to Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais genera of Eccritotarsini

1 Eyes prominent; cuneus curved, long and narrow, much more than three times as. long as wide, usually reaching the apex of membrane.......................................................................................... 2

- Eyes sessile; cuneus less than three times as long as wide, not reaching the apex of membrane.........................4

2 Apex of cuneus not reaching the apex of membrane.................................................. .. Sinervus *

- Apex of cuneus reaching the apex of membrane............................................................. 3

3 Elongate species, with parallel hemelytra; cuneus long and narrow; labium reaching middle coxae............. Spartacus *

- Broader species, with hemelytra distinctly widened at middle; cuneus strongly broadened, rounded apically, with male having apex contiguous or separated by a distance less than width of base of cuneus; labium extending beyond posterior coxae................................................................................................ Neoneella

4 Labium short and thick, reaching only to fore coxa........................................................... 5

- Labium longer, reaching to middle of mesosternum or beyond.................................................. 7

5 Pronotum and hemelytra shiny black, glabrous; pronotum deeply punctate............................. Bothrophorella

- Pronotum always with extensive reddish or orange areas; hemelytra distinctly pubescent; pronotum weakly punctate or unpunctated.......................................................................................... 6

6 Head strongly produced between and below antennae; front striate; eyes large,. with posterior margin curved; pronotal collar narrow........................................................................................ Sysinas *

- Head not strongly produced between and below the antennae; front smooth; eyes small, with posterior margin straight; pronotal collar wide................................................................................ Aspidobothrys

-- Head pointed, front convex, vertex flat, smooth, its length longer than width of vertex, eyes large with internal and posterior margins straight, contiguous to anterior margin of pronotum; clypeus very prominent and long as long as one eye.................................................................................................... Knightocoris

7 Labium reaching abdominal segment IV or beyond................................................. Stictolophus

- Labium not reaching abdominal segment IV................................................................ 8

8 Species usually black; head produced below the antennae; pronotum convex, usually prominent and higher than hemelytra.. 9

- Species not black, when black, without the characteristics above...............................................11

9 Hemelytra covered by silvery, silky, or woolly pubescence; outer margin of eyes about the same level as anterior pronotal margin.................................................................................. .. Cyrtocapsus *

- Hemelytra not covered by silvery, silky, or wooly pubescence; outer margin of eyes extending beyond level of anterior pronotal margin............................................................................................. 10

10 Species with silvery spots or patches of setae...................................................... Pycnoderes *

- Species without silvery spots or patches of setae.................................................... Sixeonotus

11 Species yellow, orange, or red with black or metallic-blue areas; antennal segment II thicker than segment I.... Tenthecoris *

- Species colored otherwise; if traces of yellow or red or shining metallic, antennal segment II not thicker than segment.... 12

12 Antennal segment I as thick as or thinner than segment II.................................................... 13

- Antenal segment I thicker than the other segments......................................................... 14

13 Species predominantly red; segment I of the labium reaching or near the apex of the anterior coxae; pronotum and scutellum roughly punctate; posterior margin of pronotum straight or so; embolium enlarged at base; pygophore without spiniform projection.............................................................................. Pachymerocerista

- Body shining metallic, hemelytra black or with red areas, covered with short setae; dorsal surface smooth; labium extending between posterior coxae; Pronotum faintly punctuated, covered with dense and adpressed pubescence; scutellum shining, covered with scattered pilosity and with a “ V ” basal depression; males in the median portion of their exocorium with a conspicuous fossa-like depression......................................................... Pachymeroceroides

14 Species with yellow and red areas.................................................................. Neella *

- Species colored otherwise............................................................................. 15

15 Hemelytra parallel............................................................................ Neofurius *

- Hemelytra distinctly widened at middle.................................................................. 16

16 Each side of posterior pronotal margin with an apically rounded process arising from a depression; small species, length 2.8 mm ..................................................................................... .. Eurychiloides

- Each side of posterior pronotal margin without an apically rounded process or depression; length longer than 2.8 mm ..... 17

17 Anterior margin of pronotum projecting over base of head; scutellum punctate.......................... .. Eurychilella *

- Anterior margin of pronotum not projecting over base of head; scutellum smooth................................. 18

18 Elongate species, twice as long as wide; coloration black or black with pale areas....................... Eccritotarsus *

- Elliptic or oval species, less than twice as long as wide; reddish or whitish species.......................... Parafurius