Caprilesia Gil-Santana, Marques and Costa, 2006

Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1), pp. 1-20 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14764756
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scientific name	Caprilesia Gil-Santana, Marques and Costa, 2006
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Type species: Caprilesia almirantiana Gil-Santana, Marques and Costa, 2006 . By monotypy, three species included.

Diagnosis: Postocular region of head subglobose; first and second visible labial segments with a pair of spiniform setae each, and third visible labial segment with one strong seta; humeral angles, mesoscutum and metascutum spined; scutellum with a short protuberance; procoxae, profemora, and protibiae spined; and forewings with two closed cells ( Gil-Santana et al. 2006, Castro-Huertas et al. 2023). In addition, pterostigma of forewing not surpassing the apex of the discal cell, and second tarsomere nearly as long as third tarsomere.

Examined material: Caprilesia sikuani Castro-Huertas, Forero and Melo, 2022 : one male, holotype, COLOMBIA: Meta, Remolinos, Centro Cafam Llanos, 55 km W de Puerto Gaitán, 165 m, 4.274963° N 72.540814° W, 30.iv. 2010, A. García et al., Bosque Bavaria, pitfall / MPUJ _ ENT 0010541 ( MPUJ). Caprilesia napuruna Castro-Huertas, Forero and Melo, 2022 : one female, holotype, ECUADOR: Napo, Sacha Wagra Lodge GoogleMaps , Rio Hollin GoogleMaps , 10 km from Archidona GoogleMaps , 730 m, 0.96° S 77.75° W, 29.xi.2009, D. Forero [EC09_L4] [fogging]/UCR_ENT 00002682 ( QCAZ).