Empicoris Wolff 1811

Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Zootaxa 2967, pp. 21-43 : 35

Empicoris Wolff 1811

Empicoris Wolff 1811: 167 –208 [exact page unknown] (new genus, type species: Cimex vagabundus Linné 1758 , by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966: 366 (description); Maldonaldo 1990: 145 (catalogue); Cassis and Gross 1995: 301 (catalogue).

Ploiariodes White, 1881: 58 (new genus, type species: Ploiariodes whitei Blackburn 1881 , by monotypy); Bergroth 1909:324 (synonymy).

Ploiariola Reuter, 1888: 711 (replacement name for Ploiaria Latreille : nec Scopoli, type species: Cimex vagabundus Linné 1758 , by monotypy); McAtee & Malloch 1922: 95 (synonymised with Ploiariodes ).

Corempis Dispons , in Dispons & Stichel, 1959: 83, 85 (new genus, type species: Ploiaria xambeui Montandon 1885 , by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966: 366 (synonymy).

Empicorella Dispons , in Dispons & Stichel, 1959: 83, 87 (new genus, type species: Empicorella tingitanus Dispons 1955 (= Empicoris rubromaculatus Blackburn 1889 ), by monotypy); Wygodzinsky 1966: 366 (synonymy).

Diagnosis. In Australia, this genus is recognised by the following: scutellum, metanotum and first visible abdominal tergite (T2) with a median spine; head and thorax clothed with dense wool-like setae; pronotum with longitudinal carinae laterally; forewing without a sub-basal cell; and pterostigma extending beyond apex of discal cell.

Remarks. Empicoris is a cosmopolitan genus comprising approximately 81 described species ( Maldonado 1990; Tatarnic et al. 2011), with the greatest diversity occurring in the Eastern Hemisphere. The delineation of species from this region remains poorly resolved. McAtee and Malloch (1922, 1925) revised the Philippine fauna and gave adequate descriptions of some of the species. Wygodzinsky (1966) reviewed the world fauna but gave little more than a listing of most of the Eastern Hemisphere species. The genus is represented in Australia by three endemic species plus the cosmopolitan E. rubromaculatus .