Mictis Caja

''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.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

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Mictini
Coreidae genera
Hemiptera of Asia