Montandoniola Poppius, 1909

Yamada, Kazutaka, Yasunaga, Tomohide & Miyamoto, Syôiti, 2010, A review of Japanese species of the genus Montandoniola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae), Zootaxa 2530, pp. 19-28 : 20

Montandoniola Poppius, 1909

Montandoniola Poppius, 1909: 30 (gen. n.). Type species: Montandoniella moraguesi Puton, 1896 . Teisocoris Hiura, 1959: 1 (gen. n.) (syn. by Carayon, 1961: 543). Type species by original designation: Ectemnus pictipennis Esaki, 1931 .

Diagnosis. Easily distinguished from other oriine genera by a combination of the following diagnostic characters: body 1.5–3.5 mm, somewhat rectangular; head, thorax, and abdomen blackish, shining; postocular region not constricted; lateral margins of pronotum strongly convergent; hemelytra blackish with clear whitish patch, membrane generally with dark central patch; hind wing with two or three veins, hamus remote from junction of Cu and M-cu; ostiolar peritreme of metapleural scent gland with narrow margins, curved in a wide arc, reaching anterior border of metapleuron ( Postle et al. 2001; Pluot-Sigwalt et al. 2009).

Distribution. Tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zone worldwide, except for South America.

Remarks. This genus currently comprises nine species worldwide. Of these, six species, including a new species described below, are distributed in East and Southeast Asia. In Africa, only two species, M. moraguesi and M. longiceps Poppius, 1910 , are now known to occur but Pluot-Sigwalt et al. (2009) suggest existence of several undescribed species. We also have confirmed at least two undescribed species of Montandoniola from Eastern and Southeast Asia during our continuing investigations.