PRONOTOCREPINI KNIGHT, 1929

Wyniger, Denise, 2010, Resurrection of the Pronotocrepini Knight, with Revisions of the Nearctic Genera Orectoderus Uhler, Pronotocrepis Knight, and Teleorhinus Uhler, and Comments on the Palearctic Ethelastia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3703), pp. 1-68 : 3

TRIBE PRONOTOCREPINI KNIGHT

Pronotocrepini Knight, 1929: 217 (new tribe).

REDIAGNOSIS: General aspect elongate or slightly ovoid; females sometimes brachypterous and myrmecomorphic; head sometimes oblique; vertex nearly vertical; clypeus visible in dorsal view, usually prominent; second antennal segment inflated at least distally, sometimes strongly so; pronotum with collarlike, flattened, finely upturned anterior margin, flat or swollen calli, shiny or dull surface, and sometimes rugose or with explanate lateral margins; hemelytra either completely fuscous or fuscous with pale or red pattern; vestiture of either pale or dark simple setae; male genitalia with large, strongly sclerotized vesica, and part apical to secondary gonopore bent, tapering to narrow point or blunt knob, without lateral processes; secondary gonopore well developed, usually with denticulate lobes laterally, usually not recognizable as closed ring; female genitalia usually with large sclerotized rings on dorsal labiate plate; posterior wall with bifurcate interramal sclerites, sometimes with medioposterior sclerotized process.