Petascelini Explained

The Petascelini^[1] are a tribe of leaf-footed bugs, in the subfamily Coreinae erected (as "Petascelaria") by Carl Stål in 1873. Many genera are from tropical Africa including the type genus Petascelis, but some are from South-East Asia.^[2] Ahmad gives key to the tribes of Coreinae including these genera.^[3]

Genera

The Coreoidea Species File lists:^[2]

1. Aurivilliana Distant, 1881
2. Carlisis Stål, 1858
3. Dilycochtha Karsch, 1895
4. Neotrematocoris Ahmad, 1979 - Bangladesh^[3]
5. Oxypristis Signoret, 1861 - Madagascar
6. Petascelis Signoret, 1847 - type genus, sub-Saharan Africa
7. Petascelisca Distant, 1881
8. Petillia Stål, 1865
9. Petillocoris Hsiao, 1963 - China
10. Petillopsis Hsiao, 1963 - India to Myanmar
11. Sulpicia (bug) Stål, 1866
12. Trematocoris Mayr, 1865 - India, China, Thailand, Malesia
13. Zenkeria (bug) Karsch, 1895

Notes and References

1. Stål C (1873) K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2): 34, 53-55.
2. http://coreoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1189585 Coreoidea Species File
3. Ahmad (1979) Supplement of the Entomological Society of Karachi 4(1):9, 12, 42.