First Records of the Assassin Bug Genus Empicoris (Insecta: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Eastern Java and Bali, Indonesia

Abstract

The reduviid genus Empicoris Wolff, 1811 is recorded from Indonesia for the first time, based on the four known species, E. discalis McAfee and Malloch, 1926, E. minutus Usinger, 1946, E. rubromaculatus (Blackburn, 1889), and E. tesselatoides Wygodzinsky and Usinger, 1960, and one new species, E. eburneus Ishikawa and Okajima, sp. nov. The new species is recognized by having the posterior pronotal lobe whitish to pale yellow with a large tubercle posteromedially, the lateral carina of the pronotum well developed and bent at one-third of the way from its anterior end, the scutellar spine long and bent in the middle, the profemur pale yellow with five brownish annulations, and other characters.