Empicoris minutus Usinger

Ishikawa, Tadashi, Truong, Xuan Lam & Okajima, Shûji, 2012, The emesine assassin bug genus Empicoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3181, pp. 47-57 : 49

Empicoris minutus Usinger

Empicoris minutus Usinger, 1946: 45 ; Ishikawa 2006: 3. Type locality: Inarajan, Guam.

Material examined. Non-types: 13 3Ƥ ( VAST and TUA) — [ Vietnam] Vinh Phuc Province: 3Ƥ, Tam Dao, 16.v.2003, T. X. Lam; 13, Me Linh, 7.vi.2003, T. X. Lam.

Diagnosis. Recognized by a combination of the following characters: posterior lobe of head a little more convex than anterior lobe, lacking tubercle behind interocular furrow; posterior pronotal lobe lacking tubercle posteromedially; lateral carina of posterior pronotal lobe less than half of posterior lobe; apicalmost blackish annulation on metafemur less than 1.5 times of distal whitish part; hemelytral pterostigma frequently tinged with red; pygophoral posterior process deeply incised; incision of pygophoral posterior process about 0.7 times as deep as length of posterior process; paramere clavate, strongly curved inwards in apical one-fourth, sparsely covered with setae in apical half; struts of phallus Y-shaped, widely bifurcate in apical one-third in dorsal view, with apical margin nearly straight in middle; styloides covered with about 2 setae at middle; and each arm of styloides widened at basal onethird. Body length 3.4–4.6 mm.

Distribution. Vietnam (Vinh Phuc Prov.), Japan, Hawaiian Islands, Mariana Islands, Samoa, Fiji.