Phthiacnemia Brailovsky, 2009

Coscarón, María Del Carmen & Pall, José Luis, 2015, The Tribe Anisoscelini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Coreidae) in Argentina, Zootaxa 4033 (3), pp. 411-426 : 423

Genus Phthiacnemia Brailovsky, 2009

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2009 Phthiacnemia Brailovsky , 60. Type species: Cimex picta Drury, 1770: 107

Diagnosis. (After Brailovsky, 2009) Head usually longer than wide; tylus in lateral view higher than juga; antennal segment I thicker than following segments, cylindrical, weakly curved outward, thickened gradually from base to apex, longer than head; antennal segments II and III slender, cylindrical, segment IV fusiform; segment IV usually longest, segment I shortest, segment II longer than III. Thorax: pronotum wider than long; anterolateral borders obliquely straight, dentate, teeth relatively stout and acute; humeral angles obtuse, truncate or gently subacute; posterolateral borders straight, smooth; posterior border straight to weakly concave, smooth. Scutellum longer than wide. Legs: Male: Fore and middle femora ventrally armed with two subapical spines and one row of obtuse spines, dorsally almost smooth; hind femur gradually incrassate, armed with two subapical spines and two rows of large and stout spines, dorsal surface densely tuberculate; fore and middle tibiae slender, unarmed, sulcate; hind tibiae robust, sulcate, ventral face armed with two rows of irregular and stout spines, dorsal face with one row of small tubercles or spines. Female: Fore femur ventrally armed with two short, subapical spines; middle femur ventrally armed with two short subapical spines, and one row of 2–3 short denticles; hind femur gradually incrassate (less than in males), ventrally with two subapical spines and one row of 3–4 narrow spines; tibiae. Male genitalia. Posteroventral edge of genital capsule with deep median notch, entire posterior edge gradually produced over curvature of capsule, with lateral angles acutely projected. Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII with sulcus short, covering one third of length of sternite; plica quadrate, apically straight; gonocoxae I subtriangular, inner margin open, upper and outer margins rounded and continuous, in lateral view slightly convex.