Leaylia Wygodzinsky 1956

Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Zootaxa 2967, pp. 21-43 : 41

Leaylia Wygodzinsky 1956

Leaylia Wygodzinsky 1966: 515 (new genus, type species: Bargylia norfolkiana Wygodzinsky 1956 , by original designation); Maldonado, 1990: 134 (catalogue); Cassis & Gross, 1995: 297 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. Recognised by the following combination of characters: apterous; medium-sized (~ 12–13 mm); body surface covered with minute tubercles; eyes small; anteocular region of head swollen; clypeus lacking spine; labium straight; two rows of setigerous spines on ventral surface of forefemur of varying lengths, with basal-most spine of ventrolateral series the largest. Similar to Bargylia , but differing in the straight labium, shorter metanotum, and the aedeagus lacking “elongate struts” (see Wygodzinsky 1966: Figs. 159L–M).