Alloeomimus Reuter

Yasunaga, Tomohide, Yamada, Kazutaka & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2013, New or little known taxa of the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from Thailand, with descriptions of three new species of the genus Acrorrhinium Noualhier, Zootaxa 3647 (3), pp. 429-442 : 435

Alloeomimus Reuter

Diagnosis. Recognized by the slender, narrow, ant-mimetic body with long antennae and legs; relatively small size; fuscous general coloration; globular head with small eye; and noticeable white maculae on hemelytron. Schuh (1984) provided further diagnostic characters.

Discussion. This small genus is composed of six species, known from the Ethiopian and Oriental regions, and Mediterranean areas. In Southeast Asia, only a single species, A. muiri , has been recorded from Indochina and Indonesia (Java).

Almost no information is available on the biology of any Alloeomimus members. Wagner (1974) reported that a species from Mid East, A. kurdus Hoberlandt , sometimes inhabits galls of aphids, without indicating any plant association.