Paraplokiophiloides Schuh, Štys, and Cassis, 2015

Schuh, Randall, Štys, Pavel, Cassis, Gerasimos, Lehnert, Margaret, Swanson, Dustin & Bruce, Terri, 2015, New genera and species of Plokiophilidae from Australia, Fiji, and Southeast Asia, with a revised classification of the family (Insecta: Heteroptera: Cimicoidea), American Museum Novitates 2015 (3825), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Paraplokiophiloides Schuh, Štys, and Cassis , new genus

TYPE SPECIES: Paraplokiophiloides schwendingeri , new species, by present designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Among all Plokiophilidae most similar to Plokiophiloides in the possession of long, very slender, 2-segmented tarsi, antennal segment 1 (scape) relatively short and distinctly shorter than segment 2 (pedicel), and in the possession of a tubular pygophore, a feature shared with all members of the Plokiophilinae (see general discussion of classification of Plokiophilidae below). Shares with Embiophila spp. the presence of heavy spines on the ventral surface of the fore- and middle femora, but differs from Embiophila in having the head with an elongate, parallel-sided neck behind the eyes rather than the weakly exserted head of Embiophila , and having very long and slender tarsi rather than being weakly inflated.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Small, elongate. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (fig. 7): Vestiture of dorsum and venter comprising short, reclining, simple setae. Antennae with suberect setae of length 2–3 times diameter of segment 2. Head, in addition to other erect setae, with two pairs of conspicuously long, erect, curving setae, one pair situated at level of posterior margin of clypeus, the other pair between ocellus and eye at posterior margin of eye (fig. 7A); pronotal collar anterolaterally with a long, posteriorly directed macrocheta (fig. 7A, B) as recorded by Carayon (1974) for other Plokiophilinae ; abdominal segment 8 with ~6 elon-