Omoplax Horváth, 1912

Souma, Jun, 2025, An illustrated key to the lace bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae) from “ Oriental Galapagos ” (the Ogasawara Islands, Japan), with descriptions of three new species of the endemic genus Omoplax Horváth, 1912, ZooKeys 1250, pp. 243-284 : 243-284

Genus Omoplax Horváth, 1912

Omoplax Horváth, 1912: 336 (as subgenus of Stephanitis Stål, 1873; upgraded by Takeya 1962: 74). Type species by monotypy: Stephanitis (Omoplax) desecta Horváth, 1912.

Note.

For detailed diagnostic characters of the genus, see Souma and Kamitani (2021) and Souma (2022 a).

Remarks.

The genus Omoplax , which is endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, previously comprised four species ( Souma 2022 a); however, in the present study, the author describes three new species. The following seven Omoplax species are currently recognized: O. desecta , O. hisasuei sp. nov., O. inugusu sp. nov., O. karubei , O. kobugashi sp. nov., O. majorcarinae , and O. mukojimensis .