Jenaro Maldonado Capriles, Puerto Rican entomologist (Yauco 17 January 1919 – San Antonio, Texas 22 November 1995)
Respected as World authority on Miridae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera)
Authored over 150 papers
With J.A. Santiago-Blay. A new structure on the hind legs of male Monalocoris carioca Carvalho & Gomez (Heteroptera: Miridae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 97:479-82, 1990
DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA
Abelocephala 1996
Adchunroides 1977
Aglaocoris 1955 with Drake
Aguayomiris 1987
Angusticella 1972
Anidiocerus 1976
Apicrenus 1993 with Santiago-Blay & Poinar (Fossil)
Balcanocerus 1971
Belosternella 1996 with Van Doesburg
Bicuspidatiella 1969
Buninotus 1981
Busoniomimus 1977
Carmenula 1992 (in honor to his wife Carmen)
Corymbonotus 1977
Cryptophysoderes 1972 with Wygodzinsky
Derophthalmoides 1987
Dolichopscerus 1985
Englemania 1976
Gressittocerus 1985
Hyalocerus 1977
Krameraxus 1968
Luteobalmus 1977
Myrmecomiris 1976
Nannicerus 1977
Neoidioscopus 1992 with Huang
Oiovelia 1952 with Drake
Orbella 1987
Paleoploiariola 1993 with Santiago-Blay & Poinar (Fossil)
Parachunroides 1977
Paraidioscopus 1964
Paralienates 1996 with Santiago-Blay & Poinar (Fossil)
Parapycnoderes 1973
Philipposcopus 1972
Platybasicornis 1971
Pseudoghiliana 1992
Pseudoidioscopus 1977
Rotundicerus 1977
Sinnamarynus 1996 with Berenger
Stomatomiris 1995 with Poinar (Fossil)
Taiwanocerus 1992 with Huang
Tomopennis 1984
HONORS (Hemiptera)
Maldonadora Webb 1983
Maldonadocoris Zhao, Yuan & Cai 2006
Caprilesia Gil-Santana, Marques & Costa 2006