Miropictopallium, Fabrikant & Novoselska, 2024

Genus Miropictopallium n. gen.

LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:03C58037-EF0C-4540-9BAE-F281551754EA .

Etymology: The genus name is a combination of the Latin mirus (wonderful), pictus (painted), and pallium (cloak) referring to the intricate colour pattern of the insect’s body. The gender is neuter.

Type species: Miropictopallium coloradmonens n. sp.

Diagnosis: In the key of Zhou et al. (2022), Miropictopallium n. gen. runs to Megaoptocoris Zhou, Luo, Xie & Li, 2016 , from which it differs in several important aspects, including larger eye size, antenna shorter than half of body length, more elongate scutellum, and tegmen with unfused costal and subcostal veins. These characteristics further distinguish the new genus from Birmaniaspina Yu, Chen & An, 2024, and Jinjupopovina Sohn & Nam, 2024.

Remarks: The new genus can be confidently assigned to the Yuripopovinidae based on the unique combination of tegmen characters among Coreidae : corium hyaline with two large cells and longitudinal veins reduced in number, apically thickened costal margin forming the pterostigma-like structure, crossvein on corium-membrane boundary not joined to claval suture, claval commissure absent, in addition to four-segmented antennae, ocelli present, pronotum wide trilobed with sinuous flank, and well-developed collar and callus ( Azar et al. 2011; Du et al. 2017).