Lasiacantha

Taxonomy

Tingis (Lasiacantha) Stål, 1873

Lasiacantha Stål, 1873

Type species: Tingis (Lasiacantha) hedenborgii Stål

Diagnostic characters

Head short, clypeus not surpassing apical half of first antennal segmentantennal segment:
subdivisions of the antennae, denoted by constrictions. All Tingidae have 4 segments.  
; length of antennal segmentantennal segment:
subdivisions of the antennae, denoted by constrictions. All Tingidae have 4 segments.  
I subequal or shorter than that of segment II; cephalic spinescephalic spine:
a spine on the head
present; bucculaebuccula:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
open anteriorly; rostral sulcusrostral sulcus:
shallow furrow on either side of rostrum (labium)
uninterrupted by a transverse carinatransverse carina:
a carina that runs across the body or body part, as opposed to longitudinally
; pronotum tricarinatetricarinate:
bearing both median carina and lateral carinae on pronotum
, height of median carinamedian carina:
an elevated ridge located on the midline of the pronotum
greater than that of lateral carinaelateral carina:
an elevated ridge located on either side of the pronotum
; pronotal hood tectiformtectiform:
tent-like or roof-shaped
or bulbous; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
expanded, oriented subvertically, with marginal row of spines, anterior margin not projecting anterad; paranotal basal foldsparanotal basal fold:
a structure at the base of paranotum next to the callus of pronotum
absent; hemelytrahemelytron:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
with claval areaclaval area:
parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron
weakly developed, almost entirely covered by posterior margin of pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
; discoidal areadiscoidal area:
area of the forewing posterior to the subcostal area
level, reaching beyond the middle of hemelytrahemelytron:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
; hypocostal laminaehypocostal lamina:
a ridge produced ventrally along costal margin
extending to the apex of abdomen (Cassis and Symonds 2008Cassis and Symonds 2008:
Cassis, G., and C. Symonds. 2008. Systematics, biogeography and host associations of the lace bug genus Inoma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48: 433-484., Cassis and Symonds 2011Cassis and Symonds 2011:
Cassis, G., and C. Symonds. 2011. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Staring;l in Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae). Zootaxa 2818: 1-63.).

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palearctic (Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634., Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae)

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Lasiacantha gracilis (Herrich-Schaeffer)	Israel	Salvia sp.
Lasiacantha hedenborgii (Stål)	Israel, Lebanon	Brassica sp., Cedrus sp., Lippia graveolens, Salvia officinalis, Salvia sp., Thymus vulgaris
Lasiacantha sp.	Israel, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey	Lippia graveolens, Origanum sp., Salvia officinalis

References

Cassis and Symonds 2008Cassis and Symonds 2008:
Cassis, G., and C. Symonds. 2008. Systematics, biogeography and host associations of the lace bug genus Inoma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48: 433-484., Cassis and Symonds 2011Cassis and Symonds 2011:
Cassis, G., and C. Symonds. 2011. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Staring;l in Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae). Zootaxa 2818: 1-63., Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634.

Additional images

Lasiacantha images at the Smithsonian