Athaumastus Mayr

Pall, Jose Luis & Coscaron, Maria del Carmen, 2013, Synopsis of Acanthocerini (Hemiptera, Coreidae) from Argentina, ZooKeys 305, pp. 33-53 : 34-35

Genus Athaumastus Mayr Figs 1, 6

Athaumastus Mayr 1865: 431. Type species: Crinocerus lugens Stål 1855: 184; monotypic.

Diagnosis.

(After O’Shea 1980) Body medium-sized, robust, postocular tubercles well developed; antennifers large, placed close together, projecting anteriorly of tylus, with well developed spine on lateral surface; pronotum not very steeply declivent, lateral margins slightly nodulose, humeral angles rounded-angulate, posthumeral, posterior margins relatively smooth; anterior femora with or without distal spines on ventral surface, intermediate and posterior femora armed at least with small apical spines, posterior femora markedly curved, incrassate, especially in male; posterior tibiae flattened, armed with teeth along ventral margin, with large tooth halfway along ventral margin in male.