Trichocephalocapsus Schuh

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 : 146

Trichocephalocapsus Schuh Figure 41

Trichocephalocapsus Schuh, 1984: 239 (n. gen., diag., descr.).

TYPE SPECIES: Trichocephalocapsus albofasciatus Schuh, 1984 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by large size; weakly necklike area behind eyes with eyes strongly exserted from anterior margin of pronotum, head elongate dorsoventrally with over K of total height of head below eyes, elongate flat gula not keellike, long and dark setae on gula and gena, narrow labrum, broad and flat pronotal collar, posterior lobe of pronotum swollen with a convex dorsal surface, white lateral margins of medially constricted hemelytron, and hemelytral membrane pale dark basally, pale distally.

Female: Macropterous, similar to male.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: This genus is easily identified by the characters in the diagnosis, with the head shape particularly distinctive, the eyes far removed from the anterior margin of the pronotum, the necklike shape of the back of the head, and the long flat gula, characters that are absent from all other genera of Leucophoropterini .

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Figure 41. Distribution of Trichocephalocapsus spp.