Isometopus Fieber, 1860

Kim, Junggon & Jung, Sunghoon, 2016, Taxonomic review of the genus Isometopus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) from the Korean Peninsula, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4137 (1), pp. 137-145 : 138

Genus Isometopus Fieber, 1860

Cephalocoris Stein, 1860: 79 ( junior homonym of Cephalocoris Heer, 1853 , fossil Heteroptera; synonymized by Baerensprung, 1860: 12). Type species: Acanthia intrusa Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835 .

Isometopus Fieber, 1860: 359 . Type species by subsequent designation ( Distant, 1904: 484): Acanthia intrusa Herrich- Schaeffer, 1835.

Turnebus Distant, 1904: 485 ( synonymized by Mcatee and Malloch, 1924: 76).

Skapana Distant, 1910: 315 ( synonymized by McAtee and Malloch, 1932: 67).

Jehania Distant, 1911: 293 ( synonymized by Carvalho, 1951: 391).

Magnocellus Smith, 1967: 27 ( synonymized by Akingbohungbe, 1996: 38).

Diagnosis. Recognized by body generally oval with densely golden pubescences and with distinct punctures on the whole body dorsally; head flattened ( Figs. 1 A–C); ocelli present on vertex; width of compound eye approximately as wide as vertex; antennae originated at ventral margin of head ( Figs. 1 D–G); antennae cylindrical in form; second antennal segment longest; hemelytra with one cell; tarsi with two segments ( Fig. 1 J).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Dorsal habitus and diagnostic characters of Isometopus spp. A, E: I. jejuensis sp. nov. Holotype, female; B – D, F – J: I. japonicus; B, D, F, H: male of I. japonicus; C, G, I: female of I. japonicus; A – C: dorsal habitus; D – G: head in anterior view; H – I: head in dorsal view; J: tarsus. Scale bar: A – C, 1 mm; D: 0.5 mm.