Karoocapsus Schuh, 1974

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/361.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5478571
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scientific name	Karoocapsus Schuh
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Karoocapsus Schuh View in CoL View at ENA

Karoocapsus Schuh, 1974: 123 View in CoL (n. gen., descr., disc., key to spp.).

DISCUSSION: Karoocapsus Schuh was one of the first genera assigned to the Leucophoropterini based on the shared synapomorphies of a relatively small pygophore, and simple male genitalia ( Schuh 1974). However, based on an analysis of the subfamily, Karoocapsus groups with Tytthus Poppius and several genera usually assigned to the Phylini , a grouping that is more closely related to the Pilophorini than Leucophoropterini (Menard et al., in press). Therefore, Karoocapsus is transferred from the Leucophoropterini to the Phylini .