Subgenus Basileonecta Hutchinson, 1940

Basileonecta Hutchinson, 1940: 355

(type species: Sigara scutellaris Stål, 1858, by original designation).

Diagnosis

Males: palar claw narrow, usually nearly straight; strigil present; median lobe of sternite VII narrow, with angular apex; free lobe of tergite VIII with mesial angle obtusely rounded or obsolete; left paramere styliform; right paramere: shaft slender and distally curved (adapted from Hutchinson 1940).

Remarks

Species of this subgenus occur in Africa, Madagascar, and Asia (Hutchinson 1940). There is still no formal checklist of species of Basileonecta as of yet. In Asia, there are three species, M. scutellaris (Stål, 1858), M. sedula Horváth, 1905, and M. siva (Kirkaldy, 1897); all are present in Vietnam.