Auricillocoris Schuh

Yasunaga, Tomohide, 2012, Review of the phyline plant bug tribe Auricillocorini from Asia, with descriptions of a new genus and nine new species from Japan, Nepal and Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Zootaxa 3530, pp. 1-24 : 8

Auricillocoris Schuh

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Auricillocoris Schuh, 1984: 76 (n. gen.), type species by original designation: A. zamboanga Schuh,1984 ; Schuh, 1995: 211 (cat.).

Diagnosis. See Schuh (1984). Dorsal habitus image of the holotype male of A. coonoor is available on a website: http://www.discoverlife.org.

Discussion. This type genus of the tribe Auricillocorini is presumably most closely related to Zaratus Distant , on the basis of similarity of the external appearance and male genitalia. Auricillocoris is composed of rare species, with only 15 specimens having so far been known. No information on the biology and morphology of the female genitalia is currently available.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Inferred phylogenetic relationships of Auricillocorini, modified from Schuh (1984). Numbers of apomorphic states of characters corresponding to those mentioned in Appendix section; homoplasious characters indicated by italics.