Euschistus Dallas, 1851

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Euschistus Dallas, 1851

The genus can be recognized by having the metasternum not produced, the peritreme reaching less than 0.4 times the distance from the ostiole to the lateral margin of the segment, the femora is unarmed, the eyes are contiguous to pronotum, the superior face of the tibiae is sulcate, the mandibular plates and the clypeus or both are apically rounded and usually subequal in length, the bucculae is evanescent or truncate at base of the head, and the antennae with five segments ( Cioato et al. 2015).