Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956

Knyshov, Alexander & Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2013, A taxonomic revision of the genus Platycranus Fieber, 1870 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), Zootaxa 3637 (3), pp. 201-253 : 225

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Subgenus Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956

Type species: Platycranus metriorrhynchus Reuter, 1883 (by original designation)

Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956: 421 , 424 [n. subgen.]; Schuh, 1995: 182 [cat.]; Wagner, 1974: 149 [key to spp .]

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: labium relatively long, reaching or surpassing middle coxa; head vertical, extended ventrally; eyes in male relatively small, vertex male 1.5–2.7 ×, female 2.2–3.5 × as wide as eye.

References

Schuh, R. T. (1995) Plant Bugs of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae): Systematic Catalog, Distributions, Host List, and Bibliography. The New York Entomological Society, New York, xii + 1329 pp.

Wagner, E. (1956) 21. Familie: Miridae (Capsidae auct.), Fortsetzung. In: Die Wanzen Mitteleuropas (J. Gulde, ed.), 11, 321 - 480.

Wagner, E. (1974) Die Miridae Hahn, 1831, des Mittelmeerraumes und der Makaronesischen Inseln (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Teil 2. Entomologische Abhandlungen, 39, Suppl. (1973), i - ii, 1 - 421.