Empicoris Wolf, 1811

Ishikawa, Tadashi, Truong, Xuan Lam & Okajima, Shûji, 2012, The emesine assassin bug genus Empicoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3181, pp. 47-57 : 48

Genus Empicoris Wolf, 1811

Empicoris Wolf, 1811 : iv; type species by monotypy: Cimex vagabundus Linnaeus, 1758 . For synonymy, see Putshkov and Putshkov (1996).

Wygodzinsky (1966) provided a detailed description. This genus can be distinguished from the other genera of the tribe Ploiariolini by a combination of the following characters: body brownish to blackish; appendages mottled with black (sometimes brown) and white pattern; head and thorax covered with short, adpressed setae; posterior pronotal lobe with whitish lateral carinae; protarsus two-segmented; hemelytron with only one cell called discal cell, except narrow triangular cell situated between costal margin and discal cell; hemelytral discal cell connected to costal margin with one short veinlet; one long longitudinal vein M+Cu extended from base of hemelytral discal cell in addition to one short, oblique, free-ending veinlet; pygophore with posterior process arising from or near posteroventral margin of pygophore; struts fused each other, apically bifurcated, T- or Y-shaped; valvifer I large, with distinct, nearly triangular valvula I apically; valvifer II almost straight and rod-shape; valvula II large, membranous for the most part, rugose longitudinally, with dorsal edges of wrinkles weakly sclerotized.