Eccritotarsini Berg
Creators: name: Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza
name: Martins, David Dos Santos
name: Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza
name: Fornazier, Maurício José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae

description: Key to Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais genera of Eccritotarsini
1 Eyes prominent; cuneus curved, long and narrow, much more than three times as. long as wide, usually reaching the apex of membrane.......................................................................................... 2
- Eyes sessile; cuneus less than three times as long as wide, not reaching the apex of membrane.........................4
2 Apex of cuneus not reaching the apex of membrane.................................................. .. Sinervus *
- Apex of cuneus reaching the apex of membrane............................................................. 3
3 Elongate species, with parallel hemelytra; cuneus long and narrow; labium reaching middle coxae............. Spartacus *
- Broader species, with hemelytra distinctly widened at middle; cuneus strongly broadened, rounded apically, with male having apex contiguous or separated by a distance less than width of base of cuneus; labium extending beyond posterior coxae................................................................................................ Neoneella
4 Labium short and thick, reaching only to fore coxa........................................................... 5
- Labium longer, reaching to middle of mesosternum or beyond.................................................. 7
5 Pronotum and hemelytra shiny black, glabrous; pronotum deeply punctate............................. Bothrophorella
- Pronotum always with extensive reddish or orange areas; hemelytra distinctly pubescent; pronotum weakly punctate or unpunctated.......................................................................................... 6
6 Head strongly produced between and below antennae; front striate; eyes large,. with posterior margin curved; pronotal collar narrow........................................................................................ Sysinas *
- Head not strongly produced between and below the antennae; front smooth; eyes small, with posterior margin straight; pronotal collar wide................................................................................ Aspidobothrys
-- Head pointed, front convex, vertex flat, smooth, its length longer than width of vertex, eyes large with internal and posterior margins straight, contiguous to anterior margin of pronotum; clypeus very prominent and long as long as one eye.................................................................................................... Knightocoris
7 Labium reaching abdominal segment IV or beyond................................................. Stictolophus
- Labium not reaching abdominal segment IV................................................................ 8
8 Species usually black; head produced below the antennae; pronotum convex, usually prominent and higher than hemelytra.. 9
- Species not black, when black, without the characteristics above...............................................11
9 Hemelytra covered by silvery, silky, or woolly pubescence; outer margin of eyes about the same level as anterior pronotal margin.................................................................................. .. Cyrtocapsus *
- Hemelytra not covered by silvery, silky, or wooly pubescence; outer margin of eyes extending beyond level of anterior pronotal margin............................................................................................. 10
10 Species with silvery spots or patches of setae...................................................... Pycnoderes *
- Species without silvery spots or patches of setae.................................................... Sixeonotus
11 Species yellow, orange, or red with black or metallic-blue areas; antennal segment II thicker than segment I.... Tenthecoris *
- Species colored otherwise; if traces of yellow or red or shining metallic, antennal segment II not thicker than segment.... 12
12 Antennal segment I as thick as or thinner than segment II.................................................... 13
- Antenal segment I thicker than the other segments......................................................... 14
13 Species predominantly red; segment I of the labium reaching or near the apex of the anterior coxae; pronotum and scutellum roughly punctate; posterior margin of pronotum straight or so; embolium enlarged at base; pygophore without spiniform projection.............................................................................. Pachymerocerista
- Body shining metallic, hemelytra black or with red areas, covered with short setae; dorsal surface smooth; labium extending between posterior coxae; Pronotum faintly punctuated, covered with dense and adpressed pubescence; scutellum shining, covered with scattered pilosity and with a “ V ” basal depression; males in the median portion of their exocorium with a conspicuous fossa-like depression......................................................... Pachymeroceroides
14 Species with yellow and red areas.................................................................. Neella *
- Species colored otherwise............................................................................. 15
15 Hemelytra parallel............................................................................ Neofurius *
- Hemelytra distinctly widened at middle.................................................................. 16
16 Each side of posterior pronotal margin with an apically rounded process arising from a depression; small species, length 2.8 mm ..................................................................................... .. Eurychiloides
- Each side of posterior pronotal margin without an apically rounded process or depression; length longer than 2.8 mm ..... 17
17 Anterior margin of pronotum projecting over base of head; scutellum punctate.......................... .. Eurychilella *
- Anterior margin of pronotum not projecting over base of head; scutellum smooth................................. 18
18 Elongate species, twice as long as wide; coloration black or black with pale areas....................... Eccritotarsus *
- Elliptic or oval species, less than twice as long as wide; reddish or whitish species.......................... Parafurius
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on pages 213-214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11615431