Mictis
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| Mictis | |
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| Mictis tenebrosa from Hong Kong | |
Scientific 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.[1] It was described by William Elford Leach in 1814.[2]
From the original description:[2]
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.
