Micronectella Lundblad, 1933

Ha, Tuyet Ngan & Tran, Anh Duc, 2021, Taxonomy of Micronectidae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) from Vietnam, with descriptions of 11 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 756, pp. 1-82 : 8

Subgenus Micronectella Lundblad, 1933

Micronectella Lundblad, 1933b: 111–113

(type species: Micronectella acuta Lundblad, 1933 , by monotypy); originally as a separate genus, downgraded to subgenus by Hutchinson (1940: 353).

Diagnosis

Males: palar claw broad, with rounded apex; prestrigilar flap on segment V with mesial corner produced, narrowly rounded [based on M. aleksanderi Nieser & Chen, 1999 ]; strigil absent; median lobe of sternite VII short and pointed [based on M. aleksanderi ]; free lobe of tergite VIII with mesial angle obsolete; shaft of right paramere moderately broad, with narrowly rounded apex (adapted from Lundblad 1933b; Hutchinson 1940).

Remarks

Currently, this subgenus contains two species, M. acuta (Lundblad, 1933) and M. aleksanderi . We have assigned the latter to the subgenus Micronectella based on the absence of a strigil, the shape of the palar claw of the male, and the shape of the right paramere (see Nieser & Chen 1999: figs 31, 38–39).