Curticerus, Yao, Yunzhi, Cai, Wanzhi & Ren, Dong, 2006

Yao, Yunzhi, Cai, Wanzhi & Ren, Dong, 2006, Fossil flower bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Cimicoidea) from the Late Jurassic of Northeast China, including a new family, Vetanthocoridae, Zootaxa 1360, pp. 1-40 : 31-32

Curticerus gen. nov.

Type species. Curticerus venustus sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Body small, dorsal surface smooth; eyes round, diameter in dorsal view subequal to interocular space; antenna 4-segmented, shorter than head, pronotum, and scutellum combined, subequal in thickness, first segment shortest, second longest, shorter than third and fourth segments combined, fourth a little shorter than third. Pronotum about 2 times as wide as long, with narrow collar; scutellum nearly as long as pronotum at midline, length shorter than width, hind coxae narrowly separated, femora distinctly thicker than tibiae, tarsus 3-segmented, of same thickness, third tarsomere longest. Hemelytron with deep median fracture, clavus large, claval commissure subequal to scutellum in length. Abdomen with connexivum, third to seventh sterna subequal in width, ovipositor long, drill extending through last two abdominal segments.

Distribution. China.

Etymology. The generic name is a combination of the Latin curtus (short) and cerus (antenna).