Lasiolabops Poppius, 1914

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 156

Lasiolabops Poppius

Lasiolabops Poppius, 1914: 26 (n. gen.); Carvalho, 1958: 53 (cat.); Schuh, 1984: 137 (diag., disc.).

DISCUSSION: Lasiolabops was originally described from Africa as a monotypic genus ( L. obscurus Poppius , type species). It was placed in the Phylini by Carvalho (1958). Schuh (1984) described three new species of Lasiolabops from New Guinea and Southeast Asia ( L. kokoda , L. cosmopolites , and L. irianicus ), which share scalelike setae ( Schuh, 1984: figs. 463–466) and stalked eyes (ibid: fig. 461) with L. obscurus . Schuh moved Lasiolabops into Leucophoropterini because the Indo-Pacific species of Lasiolabops grouped with the leucophoropterine genera in his phylogenetic analysis ( Schuh, 1984). Potential synapomorphies uniting Lasiolabops with Leucophoropterini are a relatively small genital capsule, a C- to J-shaped endosoma, and a weakly sclerotized secondary gonopore ( Schuh, 1984). However, these characters are also present in Dilatops ( Weirauch, 2006) (see discussion above). W e are also moving Lasiolabops out of the Leucophoropterini and back into a broadly conceived Phylini because the phylogenetic analysis of Menard et al. (in press) does not place Lasiolabops in the Leucophoropterini as conceived here.