Genus Cardiastethus Fieber 1860

Cardiastethus Fieber 1860: 266 . Type species by subsequent designation (Kirkaldy 1906: 121): Cardiastethus luridellus Fieber 1860 .

Dasypterus Rueter 1871: 564 (syn. Reuter 1884: 138). Type species by subsequent designation (Kirkaldy 1906: 121): Xylocoris limbatellus Stål 1858, Brazil.

Diagnosis. Dorsal surface roughened and densely pubescent; head shorter than width across eyes; antennal segment II sexually dimorphic (thicker in male); rostrum reaching or slightly exceeding forecoxae.