Corythaica

Taxonomy

Corythaica Stål, 1873

Type species: Tingis monacha Stål

Diagnostic characters

Head short, clypeus not surpassing apical half of first antennal segment; cephalic spinescephalic spines:
a spine on the head
absent; bucculaebucculae:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
closed anteriorly; rostral sulcusrostral sulcus:
shallow furrow on either side of rostrum (labium)
uninterrupted by a transverse carinacarina:
elevated ridge or keel
; pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
tricarinate; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
bulbous, extending forward beyond the apex of head, compressed anteriorly in dorsal view; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
expanded, oriented subvertically, without marginal row of spines, anterior margin not projecting anterad; paranotal basal foldsparanotal basal folds:
a structure at the base of paranotum next to the callus of pronotum
present; hemelytrahemelytra:
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 or with one elevation, discoidal cell not extending beyond the middle of hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
(Hurd 1946Hurd 1946:
Hurd, M. E. P. 1946. Generic classification of North American Tingoidea (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). The Iowa State College Journal of Science 20: 429-493., Knudson 2018Knudson 2018:
Knudson, A. H. 2018. The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Central America (with an emphasis on Costa Rica). Master#39;s thesis. North Dakota University. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/28773).

Distribution

Nearctic, Neotropical, 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., 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)
Corythaica caestri (Reed)	Chile, Honduras	Cichorium intybus, Rubus idaeus
Corythaica carinata Uhler	Brazil, Colombia	Annona muricata, Cajanus cajan, Capsicum annuum, Carica papaya, Chenopodium sp., Citrus sp, Codiaeum variegatum, Cucurbita sp., Cymbopogon citratus, Dianthus sp., Dysphania ambrosioides, Jatropha gossypiifolia, Unknown plant in family Lamiaceae , Magnoliophyta sp., Melissa officinalis, Mentha sp., Momordica balsamina, Momordica balsamina, Momordica charantia, Momordica dioica, Momordica sp., Nephelium lappaceum, Ocimum basilicum, Ocimum sp., Persea sp., Petiveria alliacea, Psidium guajava, Rosmarinus officinalis, Salvia officinalis, Salvia sp., Solanum lycopersicum var lycopersicum, Solanum sp., Stachytarpheta sp., Thymus sp., Thymus vulgaris, Urtica sp., Verbena sp.
Corythaica cyathicollis (Costa)	Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia	Capsicum sp., Echeveria sp., Rubus idaeus, Solanum torvum, Solanum sp., Unknown plant belonging to family Sterculiaceae
Corythaica sp.	Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru	Mentha sp., Ocimum basilicum, Thymus vulgaris

References

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., Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae. Hurd 1946Hurd 1946:
Hurd, M. E. P. 1946. Generic classification of North American Tingoidea (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). The Iowa State College Journal of Science 20: 429-493., Knudson 2018Knudson 2018:
Knudson, A. H. 2018. The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Central America (with an emphasis on Costa Rica). Master#39;s thesis. North Dakota University. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/28773

Additional images

Corythaica images at the Smithsonian