TRIBE PRONOTOCREPINI KNIGHT

Pronotocrepini Knight, 1929: 217 (new tribe).

REDIAGNOSIS: General aspect elongate or slightly ovoid; females sometimes brachypterous and myrmecomorphic; head sometimes oblique; vertex nearly vertical; clypeus visible in dorsal view, usually prominent; second antennal segment inflated at least distally, sometimes strongly so; pronotum with collarlike, flattened, finely upturned anterior margin, flat or swollen calli, shiny or dull surface, and sometimes rugose or with explanate lateral margins; hemelytra either completely fuscous or fuscous with pale or red pattern; vestiture of either pale or dark simple setae; male genitalia with large, strongly sclerotized vesica, and part apical to secondary gonopore bent, tapering to narrow point or blunt knob, without lateral processes; secondary gonopore well developed, usually with denticulate lobes laterally, usually not recognizable as closed ring; female genitalia usually with large sclerotized rings on dorsal labiate plate; posterior wall with bifurcate interramal sclerites, sometimes with medioposterior sclerotized process.