Mictis

Mictis is a genus of sap-sucking insects in the family Coreidae, with species recorded from India, China, Vietnam and Malesia through to Australia. It was described by William Elford Leach in 1814.

Description
From the original description:

Head immersed even to the eyes within the thorax; vertex with two ocelli placed transversely; antennae filiform, four-jointed, joints cylindric, equal, or with the first joint rather longer.

Anterior four feet alike in size and form; hinder ones with thick thighs and with the internal side of the tibiae dilated; tarsi all three-joined, the first longor than the other two conjoined.

Body elongate, flat above; thorax triangular, very narrow in front; abdomen with dilated sides.

Etymology
The original description gives no explanation of its etymology.

Species
The Coreoidea species file lists (as of 2022):
 * 1) Mictis abstrusa Linnavuori, 1978
 * 2) Mictis amboinensis Walker, 1871
 * 3) Mictis angusta Hsiao, 1965
 * 4) Mictis caja Stål, 1865
 * 5) Mictis difficilis Brailovsky & Barrera, 2006
 * 6) Mictis dilatipes (Blöte, 1938)
 * 7) Mictis discolor Dallas, 1852
 * 8) Mictis falloui Reuter, 1888
 * 9) Mictis farinulenta Breddin, 1899
 * 10) Mictis formidabilis Distant, 1918
 * 11) Mictis fuscipes Hsiao, 1963
 * 12) Mictis gallina Dallas, 1852
 * 13) Mictis javana Walker, 1871
 * 14) Mictis longicornis Westwood, 1842
 * 15) Mictis macra Stål, 1865
 * 16) Mictis oceanensis Distant, 1900
 * 17) Mictis profana (Fabricius, 1803) - type species (as Mictis crucifera Leach)
 * 18) Mictis pungens Stål, 1871
 * 19) Mictis riedeli Brailovsky, 2002
 * 20) Mictis rufovittata Walker, 1871
 * 21) Mictis serina Dallas, 1852
 * 22) Mictis sulawesiana Brailovsky, 2002
 * 23) Mictis tenebrosa (Fabricius, 1787)
 * 24) Mictis tridentifer Blöte, 1938
 * 25) Mictis tuberosa Hsiao, 1965