Scolopini Carayon, 1954

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 51

Scolopini Carayon, 1954

Scolopini Carayon, 1954: 601 . Type genus: Scolopa Carayon, 1954 .

Diagnostic characters. Characterized by a complex glandular system in male, the ‘ura-denia’, term used by CARAYON (1954) and compared with the homologous structures in Pentatomomorpha. It ends on the ventral surface of sternum III or IV, exceptionally on V (in Opisthypselus Reuter, 1909 ). Left paramere usually simple, curved, with a longitudinal median sulcus. Females with ovipositor well developed (sometimes reduced, but never vestigial). Ovivalvula triangular, located in the middle of posterior edge of seventh sternum (absent in Eulasiocolpus Champion, 1900 , and Lepidonannella Poppius, 1913 ). Tegumentary copulation, on ventral side. Ectospermalege usually present. A well defined transversal sulcus behind ocelli, with some short and erected hairs, not aligned as in Cardiastethini ( CARPINTERO & DELLAPÉ 2008) . Species of this tribe live under bark of trees ( CARAYON 1972).