Nidicola Harris & Drake 1941

Nidicola Harris & Drake, 1941 (Figs. 5, 22) Nidicola Harris & Drake, 1941: 343. Type species: Nidicola marginata Harris & Drake, 1941. Diagnostic characters. Small size (1.6–2.1 mm), oblong to obovate. Upper surface depressed. Head wider than long; eyes small; rostrum long, surpassing mid coxae. Pronotum much wider than long; anterior margin nearly straight; lateral margins widely explanate, carinated and straight, with anterior angles rounded; basal margin concave. Polymorphic wings, from well developed to not reaching the tip of abdomen, dense and finely punctured, especially in clavus; exocorium narrow. Legs moderately long, with short and slender hairs; femora not enlarged; fore coxae with four or five long setae; male fore tibiae with row of teeth on inner surface; fossula spongiosa small. Female with ovipositor reduced. Left paramere slender, long and slightly spiraled. Ostiolar peritreme (Fig. 22) gently curved forward, basal half a little wider than apical one (a little different to peritreme drawed in DRAKE & HERRING (1964) that is parallel-sided), and apically rounded with small excentric acute tip; median sulcus arises from top of peritreme; dorsal margin of metapleura smooth. Studied material. Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964: NICARAGUA: León, V. Telica, 4-IX-1991, 2 JJ 1 ♀, Nolo – González lgt., en nido de Nasutitermes sp. (MACN). Remarks. This genus includes a very peculiar group of species restricted to southwestern USA, Mexico and Central America. The long setae on fore coxae are probably related to a stridulatory function.Published as part of Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, pp. 49-66 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.533041