Cimicicapsus Poppius, 1915

Xu, Jing-Yang & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2009, The genus Cimicicapsus Poppius from China (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae), Zootaxa 2014, pp. 19-33 : 20-21

Cimicicapsus Poppius, 1915

Cimicicapsus Poppius 1915b: 83 (orig. desc.); Carvalho 1957: 56 (cat.); Nakatani 2001: 253 (disc.). Deraeocoris Kirschbaum, 1856 : Kerzhner & Schuh, 1995: 4 (syn. n.)

Deraeocoris (Cimicicapsus) Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 37 (stat. n.).

Type species: Cimicicapsus parviceps Poppius, 1915 (subseq. design., Kerzhner 1993: 98).

Diagnosis: Body oval, covered with dense setae; porrect head, setose eye; pronotum and hemelytron covered with distinct punctures, calli with a hollow near each anterolateral margin, densely setose leg, and dense paddle-like setae ventrally on the apical part of tarsomere III. Male genitalia: left paramere sensory lobe with an elongate protuberance; hypophysis flattened, apical portion covered with minute setae; vesica usually with four or five sclerotized appendages; dorsal membranous lobe well developed with field of spines; left side of vesica highly sclerotized basally; phallotheca asymmetrical; apex with a large plate; right side of apical part with window-like structure.

Remarks: Cimicicapsus Poppius 1915 , originally established as a distinct genus, was demoted to subgeneric rank within Deraeocoris Kirschbaum by Kerzhner & Schuh (1995). Nakatani (2001) treated Cimicicapsus as a genus based on the calli furnished with a hollow near each anterolateral margin, dense paddlelike setae ventrally on the apical part of tarsomere III, and specific genitalia structures. We agree with Nakatani’s standpoint on the generic status of Cimicicapsus . This genus can be isolated from Deraeocoris by the following characters: with paddle-like setae on tarsomeres III, semicircular left paramere with elongate process of sensory lobe, and phallothecae with a large triangular plate.

In addition, we have examined the holotype of Deraeocoris alticallus Hsiao (1941) . The dorsum of D. alticallus is glabrous, but the species of Cimicicapsus are covered with dense setae. We consider that D. alticallus is not a member of Cimicicapsus .