Liocapsus Poppius, 1915

Kim, Junggon, Phan, Quoc Toan, Pham, Hong Thai & Jung, Sunghoon, 2024, First record of the genus Liocapsus Poppius, 1915 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Vietnam, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5537 (2), pp. 295-300 : 296

Genus Liocapsus Poppius, 1915

Liocapsus Poppius 1915: 15 . Type species: Liocapsus brevirostris Poppius, 1915 ; Yasunaga & Schwartz 2007: 165; Yasunaga & Duwal 2008: 415.

Paracyphodema Zheng et al. 2004: 760 (synonymized. by Yasunaga & Duwal, 2008: 415).

Diagnosis. Differs from other representatives of Mirini as follows: body shiny and polished, elongated oval, covered with silvery setae; head projected dorsally, strongly shining (including vertex, frons and clypeus); carina prominent at posterior part of head; vertex not sulcate, shorter than first antennal segment; antennae generally linear; first segment as thick as second segment; first antennal segment much longer than fourth antennal segment; second segment slightly clavate; antennae originating above ventral margin of compound eye laterally; pronotal collar thinner than first antennal segment diameter; labium remarkably short, not reaching base of midcoxa; scutellum slightly swollen in lateral view; hemelytra partly glabrous; cuneus narrow shaped, length longer than width; spines of tibia dark and distinct; third tarsal segment much longer than first tarsal segment, as long as second tarsal segment; phallotheca with fin-like process; hypophysis of left paramere hook-shaped, sensory lobe of left paramere narrow; hypophysis of right paramere straight, sensory lobe of right paramere broadly developed; endosoma membranous with a long, slender and curved spicule; female genitalia with thickened and subtriangular sclerotized rings, and with paired sclerotized structure; interramal lobe in posterior wall with minute spinules.