Laccocoris Stål, 1858

Mbogho, Aaron Y. & Sites, Robert W., 2013, Naucoridae Leach, 1815 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Tanzania, African Invertebrates 54 (2), pp. 513-513 : 522

Genus Laccocoris Stål, 1858

Among Tanzanian laccocorines, Laccocoris can be distinguished from Aneurocoris because the hemelytra have distinct embolar and claval sutures, and from Ctenipocoris because the pronotum’s greatest width is approximately three times its length at the midline ( Figs 17–19 ). This genus is currently known from Africa through India to the Greater Sunda Islands and the Philippines. However, an unpublished study suggests that the genus should be restricted to species from Africa and the Middle East, a concept supported by our discovery of the transverse hemelytral fracture, which is absent in Southeast Asian taxa (see discussion of Laccocorinae ). The African species of Laccocoris were revised by Linnavuori (1987) with a key to species and subspecies, illustrations, distributions, and other annotations. Eleven species are known from Africa; of these only one ( L. limigenus ) was recorded from Tanzania previously. We add two species here.

Figures

Figs 17–19. (17) Laccocoris limicola female from L-1158, (16) Laccocoris limigenus male from L-1225, (19) Laccocoris spurcus congoensis female from L-1207. Sizes are proportionate among figures.