Planicapitus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020

Taszakowski, Artur, Kim, Junggon & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2025, Further records of the tribe Gigantometopini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Isometopinae) with descriptions of three new genera and five new species, Zootaxa 5725 (4), pp. 451-474 : 455-456

Genus: Planicapitus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020

Planicapitus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020: 74 (new genus; type species Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020 , by monotypy); Taszakowski et al. 2023: 185 (checklist).

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: dorsum and pleurites of thorax with deep and dense punctures; head vertical, flattened, not punctured but wrinkled and distinctly higher than wide, as high as pronotum height; vertex convex, protruding above eye level, width equal or slightly larger than eye width; compound eye elongate oval, tapered apically in front view, height subequal to 1/2 head height; pedicel subequal to or shorter than combined lengths of flagellomeres; labium reaching third abdominal segment; anterior margin of pronotum convex; punctures on scutellum weaker than those on pronotum; calli slightly marked, tarsi two segmented, claw without subapical tooth or with very small, barely noticeable apical tooth; abdomen short, not reaching to apex of cuneus; left paramere scythe-shaped, apical process tapered to apex, sensory lobe broadly developed; right paramere angled, apical process thick, sensory lobe knee-shaped, longer than 1/2 left paramere length; endosoma membranous with long sclerotized appendage and spinules (updated from Taszakowski et al. 2020).

Remarks. Taszakowski et al. (2020) presented the genital structures of Planicapitus luteus . However, a mistake was made during the preparation of the manuscript, and the presented photos (fig. 5A–E in Taszakowski et al. 2020), in fact, belong to an undescribed species of Sophianus Distant, 1904 . Unfortunately, the genitalia of the P. luteus holotype are missing; however, we have found another specimen of this species, which allows us to describe it below ( Fig. 5 ). Moreover, Taszakowski et al. (2020) stated that the type specimen of P. luteus is deposited in RBINS. The actual place of deposition of the specimen is ZMAN.

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FIGURE 5. Planicapitus luteus Taszakowski, Kim & Herczek, 2020, male genitalia. Genital capsule (A), aedeagus (B), left paramere (C), right paramere (D). ap = apical process; app = sclerotized appendage; bp = basal process; lp = left paramere, rp = right paramere; sl = sensory lobe; sp = spinules.