NAMTOKOCORINI, Sites, 2022

Sites, Robert W., 2022, Phylogeny and revised classification of the saucer bugs (Hemiptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195, pp. 1245-1286 : 1266-1267

TRIBE NAMTOKOCORINI TRIB. NOV.

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Diagnosis: Diagnostic features were provided by Sites & Vitheepradit (2007) as follows: (1) a pair of prominent scutellar protuberances; (2) the prosternal midline bears an expansive, thin, plate-like carina; (3) the forelegs of both sexes have a one-segmented tarsus apparently fused with the tibia; (4) the forelegs have a single pretarsal claw; and (5) prominent linear series of stout hairs occur on the hemelytra.

Comments: Namtokocoris occurs on the vertical rock surfaces of waterfalls in Indochina and is recognized here as the new tribe Namtokocorini . The designation of single-genus tribes for Namtokocoris and Ctenipocoris is necessary to create a consistent taxonomic framework for the subfamily with the inclusion of the more diverse tribes Heleocorini and Laccocorini .

Included taxa: This tribe is represented by only the genus Namtokocoris and seven described species ( Sites & Vitheepradit, 2007; Vitheepradit, 2017).

Figures

Figure 4. Foretibiae and foretarsi of Laccocorinae: Ctenipocoris asiaticus (a), Heleolaccocoris ovatus (b), Namtokocoris dalanta (c).