Lasiochiloides Champion, 1900

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 63

Lasiochiloides Champion, 1900

Lasiochiloides Champion, 1900: 311 . Type species: Lasiochiloides denticulatus Champion, 1900 .

Diagnostic characters. Body flattened dorso-ventrally. Head short, broader than long. Eyes small. Rostrum reaching middle of metasternum; antennal segments III and IV very slender. Hemelytra pilose, punctured: clavus with row of punctures on inner margin; corium and cuneus with sparse punctures. Fore and hind femora very enlarged. Fore femora with spines on inner margin. Fore tibiae with row of teeth on inner margin, with a small fossula spongiosa at apex. Ostiolar peritreme long and strongly curved forwards, apically rounded.

Studied material. Lasiochiloides denticulatus Champion,1900 : HOLOTYPE: J, GUATEMALA: ‘ Type, BCA Rhynch. II, Lasiochiloides denticulatus Ch. Cerro Zunil , 4-5000 ft Champ. sp. figured’ ( BMNH).

Remarks. This genus has an uncertain position within the Scolopina because of its densely pilose and punctured dorsum. The generic affinities with the Old World species must be revised.