Castanopsides Yasunaga, 1992

Oh, Min Suk & Lee, Seunghwan, 2017, New record of Castanopsidesfalkovitshi Kerzhner from Korea (Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 12982-12982 : 12982

Castanopsides Yasunaga, 1992

Castanopsides Yasunaga 1992: 45 (gen. nov.). Type species: Castanopsides hasegawai Yasunaga, 1992, monotypic; Schuh 1995: 737 (cat.); Yasunaga 1998: 100 (diag., key to eastern Asia spp.); Kerzhner and Josifov 1999: 81 (cat.); Kwon et al. 2001: 123 (cat.); Yasunaga et al. 2001: 226 (diag.); Schuh 2014: (cat.);

Castanopsides

Diagnosis

Castanopsides in East Asia can be recognized by the following characters: Body elongate oval, moderate to large size; dorsum covered with pale sericeous setae; antennae slender, segment I and II incrassate apically; labium rather short, not over metacoxa; male endosoma membranous, with a sclerotized, elongated spiculum and thick-rimmed secondary gonopore; hypophysis of left paramere hooked, sensory lobe rather tumid, or with sparsely toothed process; right paramere elongate, apex of hypophysis crooked; sclerotized ring elongate ovoid, usually not adjacent each other. For detailed diagnostic characters, see Yasunaga (1998) and Yasunaga (2016).

Notes

This genus relate to five other genera which distributes at Palearctic and Oriental region; Gotoshinomiris Yasunaga, Liocapsus Poppius, Mahania Poppius, Orientocapsus Yasunaga & Schwartz, and Philostephanus Distant. Morphological charactier of them are superficially similar, so careful diagnosis is need. Yasunaga (2016) provide key for this allied genera, and discuss about their genitalic structure.