Cleotomiris Schuh, 1984

Duwal, Ram Keshari, Yasunaga, Tomohide, Tomokuni, Masaaki, Nakatani, Yukinobu & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2017, Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy, Zootaxa 4258 (5), pp. 401-424 : 406

Cleotomiris Schuh, 1984

Cleotomiris Schuh, 1984: 81 (n. gen., invalid name as type species not designated); Kerzhner & Schuh, 1995: 8 (type designation); Schuh, 1995: 211 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 277 (cat.); Yasunaga, 2001: 146 (diag.); Yasunaga, 2012: 9 (diag.); Schuh & Menard, 2013: 6 (tribal placement).

Type species by subsequent designation: Cleotomiris schneirlai Schuh, 1984 ; in Kerzhner & Schuh 1995: 8.

Distinguished from other related genera by the following combination of characters: small to moderate sized body; brown to fuscous basic coloration; somewhat terete antennal segments IĪIV; trapezoidal pronotum roughly inflated posteriorly and constricted anteriorly; large eyes (in male); distinct white or pale fascia behind apex of scutellum and pale areas on corium at level of apex of clavus; and short endosoma with various length of apical process and well developed secondary gonopore, mostly located sub-apically. For detailed description see Schuh (1984: 81).

The genus consists of nine species, described from the Sundaland, Indochina, SE China and Japanese Ryukyus ( Schuh, 1984; Yasunaga, 2012; Yasunaga & Duwal, 2015). Further, we describe a new species, Cleotomiris inthanon from Thailand .

There is little known about the biology of Cleotomiroides . As in Wygomiris (see below), almost all available specimens for these two genera are attracted to UV light traps, and only a few were captured by sweeping leaves or inflorescences of broadleaf angiosperms (cf. Yasunaga, 2012).