Embiophila China, 1953

Xiong, Haoyang, Chen, Zhuo, Li, Hu & Cai, Wanzhi, 2025, First record of silk-loving genus Embiophila (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Plokiophilidae) from Asia, with description of a new species from China, ZooKeys 1248, pp. 295-307 : 295-307

Genus Embiophila China, 1953

Embiophila China, 1953: 67. Type species by original designation: Embiophila myersi China, 1953.

Diagnosis.

Embiophila can be distinguished from other genera of Plokiophilidae by the following combination of characters: head lacking elongate neck behind eyes; legs relatively short and stout; fore and mid femora armed ventrally with spines; tarsi two-segmented, relatively short; hemelytron with distinct cuneus; pygophore tubular.

Diversity and distribution.

The genus currently contains four species, one from the Afrotropical Region ( Carayon 1974), two from the Neotropical Region ( China 1953; Carpintero and Dellapé 2005), and one described herein from the Oriental Region (Fig. 5 ).

Figures

Figure 5. Known distribution of Embiophila: blue dot = E. africana; yellow dot = E. maesi; purple dot = E. myersi; red star = E. sinica sp. nov.