Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Rhyparochromidae

Genus Neopoliocoris nom. n.

Poliocoris Slater 1994: 120 ( Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae). Preoccupied by Poliocoris Kirkaldy 1910: 130 ( Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae).

Type species.

Poliocoris umbrosus Slater, 1994.

Distribution.

South Africa.

Etymology.

From the preexisting name Poliocoris and the prefix “Neo-” from the Greek “neos”, meaning new; gender masculine.