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''Mictis'' is a genus of sap-sucking insects in the family ''
Coreidae Coreidae is a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus ''Coreus'', which derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning bedbug. As a family, the Coreidae ar ...
'', with species recorded from India, China, Vietnam and
Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...
through to Australia. It was described by
William Elford Leach William Elford Leach Royal Society, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. Life and work Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a me ...
in 1814.Leach, W.E. (1814)
The Zoological Miscellany, being descriptions of new, or interesting Animals
Nodder, London. 1-137, page 91


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): # '' Mictis abstrusa'' Linnavuori, 1978 # '' Mictis amboinensis'' Walker, 1871 # '' Mictis angusta'' Hsiao, 1965 # '' Mictis caja'' Stål, 1865 # '' Mictis difficilis'' Brailovsky & Barrera, 2006 # '' Mictis dilatipes'' (Blöte, 1938) # '' Mictis discolor'' Dallas, 1852 # '' Mictis falloui'' Reuter, 1888 # '' Mictis farinulenta'' Breddin, 1899 # '' Mictis formidabilis'' Distant, 1918 # '' Mictis fuscipes'' Hsiao, 1963 # '' Mictis gallina'' Dallas, 1852 # '' Mictis javana'' Walker, 1871 # '' Mictis longicornis'' Westwood, 1842 # '' Mictis macra'' Stål, 1865 # '' Mictis oceanensis'' Distant, 1900 # '' Mictis profana'' (Fabricius, 1803) - type species (as ''Mictis crucifera'' Leach) # '' Mictis pungens'' Stål, 1871 # '' Mictis riedeli'' Brailovsky, 2002 # '' Mictis rufovittata'' Walker, 1871 # '' Mictis serina'' Dallas, 1852 # '' Mictis sulawesiana'' Brailovsky, 2002 # '' Mictis tenebrosa'' (Fabricius, 1787) # '' Mictis tridentifer'' Blöte, 1938 # '' Mictis tuberosa'' Hsiao, 1965


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q21228488 Mictini Coreidae genera Hemiptera of Asia