Nicostratus Distant, 1904 Nicostratus Distant, 1904: 475 (n. gen.); Carvalho, 1952: 70; Carvalho, 1958: 174; Schuh, 1974: 317. Type species: Nicostratus balteatus Distant, 1904. Diagnosis: Myrmecomorphic; body elongate; head nearly globose, eyes large; antennal segment I much shorter than head, II incrassate towards apex, III slightly longer than IV; labium extending to procoxae; anterior lobe of pronotum strongly constricted and narrow, posterior lobe globose and wide, posterior margin slightly concavely sinuate; calli divergent, elevated; scutellum elevated; margins of clavus deflected; lateral margins of corium concavely sinuate; embolium deflexed along emboliar-corial suture, wide apically; cuneus deflected, longer than wide; membrane passing well beyond apex of abdomen; legs slender; hind femora incrassate towards apex. Claval commissural lateral margin length 0.53–0.60 0.60 0.65–0.71 0.68–0.71

Published as part of Xu, Jing-Yang & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2007, The genus Nicostratus Distant from China (Hemiptera: Miridae: Deraeocorinae), pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1467 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176591