Leptopicia, Raven, 2015

Leptopicia View in CoL gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Differs from Poecilipta in the very large AME ( Figs 3f View FIGURE 3 , 63a View FIGURE 63 , as in Medmassa ), the straight embolus ( Fig. 63e View FIGURE 63 ) in males, lobular paracymbial spine ( Fig. 64b, e View FIGURE 64 ), dorsal scute partial but no ventral scute in males, the highly folded spermathecae ( Fig. 63d View FIGURE 63 ) of females, and the absence of post-epigastric sclerites in males and females.

Type species. Methesis bimaculata Simon, 1896 View in CoL .

Etymology. An anagram of Poecilipta , which it closely resembles; the gender is feminine.