Genus Microsarimodes Chang & Chen, 2019

Microsarimodes Chang & Chen, 2019 in Chang et al. 2019: 137.

Type species

Microsarimodes tumidus Chang & Chen, 2019, by original designation.

Diagnosis

The genus Microsarimodes can be differentiated from the other genera of Sarimini by the following combination of characters, according to Chang et al. (2019) and Wang et al. (2020): (1) vertex quadrangular, distinctly wider than long in midline, with lateral margins parallel or sinuate; (2) frons relatively flat, median carina stout and peridiscal (lateral) carina weak, not reaching over middle; (3) tegmina relatively narrow with apical margin round, with ScP long, reaching over middle, RP forked before midlength and MP dividing before midlength of tegmen; (4) hind wings with Pcu non branched, without transverse vein between CuP and Pcu; (5) gonostyli with irregularly tumefied protuberance near base of capitulum; (6) aedeagus with one process; (7) gonoplacs irregularly triangular.

Species included

Microsarimodes backeljaui sp. nov.

Microsarimodes flavomaculatus Wang & Bourgoin, 2020

Microsarimodes maculosus (Che, Zhang & Wang, 2020)

Microsarimodes tumidus Chang & Chen, 2019