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Genus of insects in the family Coreidae

Mictis
Mictis tenebrosa from Hong Kong
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Coreidae
Tribe: Mictini
Genus: Mictis
Leach, 1814

Mictis is a genus of sap-sucking insects in the family Coreidae, with species recorded from India, China, Vietnam and Malesia through to Australia. It was described by William Elford Leach in 1814.

Description

From the original description:

Head immersed even to the eyes within the thorax; vertex with two ocelli placed transversely; antennae filiform, four-jointed, joints cylindric, equal, or with the first joint rather longer.

Anterior four feet alike in size and form; hinder ones with thick thighs and with the internal side of the tibiae dilated; tarsi all three-joined, the first longor than the other two conjoined.

Body elongate, flat above; thorax triangular, very narrow in front; abdomen with dilated sides.

Etymology

The original description gives no explanation of its etymology.

Species

The Coreoidea species file lists (as of 2022):

  1. Mictis abstrusa Linnavuori, 1978
  2. Mictis amboinensis Walker, 1871
  3. Mictis angusta Hsiao, 1965
  4. Mictis caja Stål, 1865
  5. Mictis difficilis Brailovsky & Barrera, 2006
  6. Mictis dilatipes (Blöte, 1938)
  7. Mictis discolor Dallas, 1852
  8. Mictis falloui Reuter, 1888
  9. Mictis farinulenta Breddin, 1899
  10. Mictis formidabilis Distant, 1918
  11. Mictis fuscipes Hsiao, 1963
  12. Mictis gallina Dallas, 1852
  13. Mictis javana Walker, 1871
  14. Mictis longicornis Westwood, 1842
  15. Mictis macra Stål, 1865
  16. Mictis oceanensis Distant, 1900
  17. Mictis profana (Fabricius, 1803) - type species (as Mictis crucifera Leach)
  18. Mictis pungens Stål, 1871
  19. Mictis riedeli Brailovsky, 2002
  20. Mictis rufovittata Walker, 1871
  21. Mictis serina Dallas, 1852
  22. Mictis sulawesiana Brailovsky, 2002
  23. Mictis tenebrosa (Fabricius, 1787)
  24. Mictis tridentifer Blöte, 1938
  25. Mictis tuberosa Hsiao, 1965
  • M. longicornis M. longicornis
  • M. profana M. profana
  • M. gallina M. gallina
  • M. serina M. serina

References

  1. ^ "genus Mictis Leach 1814". Coreoidea species file. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  2. ^ Leach, W.E. (1814) 1 The Zoological Miscellany, being descriptions of new, or interesting Animals Nodder, London. 1-137, page 91
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