Ablaptus Stål, 1872

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 16

Ablaptus Stål, 1872

The genus can be recognized by the interocular region is shorter than the length of the head, the apex of the mandibular plates is overlapping, the antennae has five segments, the first antennal segment is nearly reaching the anterior margin of the head, the bucculae is weakly produced anteriorly, the mesosternum is stoutly carinate medially, the humeral angles slightly projected but without a process (spine or tubercle), and the male with a transversal subapical sulcus on the hemelytra (Rolston 1988, Becker & Grazia 1989).