Lasiocolpoides Champion, 1900

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 58

Lasiocolpoides Champion, 1900

Lasiocolpoides Champion, 1900: 313 . Type species: Lasiocolpoides ciliatus Champion, 1900 .

Diagnostic characters. Head longer than broad; eyes large; rostrum extending barely beyond fore coxae. Pronotum smooth, trapezoidal, abruptly narrowing forward; lateral margins carinated and feebly sinuated; scutellum transversely sulcated beyond middle, with apical portion flattened. Hemelytra very distinctly and subseriately punctured, pilose; exocorium narrow apically, nearly half the width of endocorium. Legs elongate, femora incrassate; tibiae with long, projecting hairs. Ostiolar peritreme short, parallel-sided and strongly curved at apex; basal 3/4, straight.

Studied material. Lasiocolpoides ciliatus Champion, 1900 : GUATEMALA: ♀ (syntype): ‘Type, BCA Rhynch. II, Lasiocolpoides ciliatus Ch. , sp. Figured, San Geronimo, Champ.’ ( BMNH).

Remarks. Like Lasiochiloides , this genus has an uncertain position among the Scolopini . We left Lasiocolpoides in Calliodina because the body is not flattened. Future studies of male and female genitalia will clarify its position within the Scolopini .