Leptoglossus Guérin-Menéville, 1831

Coscarón, María Del Carmen & Pall, José Luis, 2015, The Tribe Anisoscelini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Coreidae) in Argentina, Zootaxa 4033 (3), pp. 411-426 : 416

Genus Leptoglossus Guérin-Menéville, 1831

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1831 Leptoglossus Guérin-Menéville , pl. XII, fig. 9. Type species: Leptoglossus dilaticollis Guérin-Menéville , monotypic.

Diagnosis. (After Allen, 1969) Head porrect, longer than wide and usually shorter than length of pronotum, prolonged anterior to antenniferous tubercles, tylus slightly exceeding juga usually rounded, ocelli widely separated, distance between ocelli greater than distance from ocellus to eye; pronotum subhexagonal with anterior face declivent, humeral areas usually expanded, greatest width of pronotum across humeri, posterior margin concave, in front of it an unevenly raised transverse ridge, antennal segment I curved and thickest, usually subequal to length of head, at least longer than anteocular distance, segment I shortest, with segment II longer than III, segment IV equal to or longer than segment III; membrane slightly surpassing abdomen; all femora armed beneath with two rows of distally directed teeth, individual teeth gradually increasing in size, tuberculate laterally and above, tubercules more or less oriented in rows, hind femora swollen and usually thicker in male than females; hind tibiae dilated, outer dilation variable in size and shape, usually wider than interocular distance. The different lobes on the dorsal sac are indicated according to their position as proximal, medial, or distal. The dorso-lateral appendage is generally a well sclerotized flat appendage and basal to the dorsal sac. The aedeagus and the color patterns have been used to establish species groups.