Metapterini
| Metapterini | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Emesinae |
| Tribe: | Metapterini Stål, 1874 |
The Metapterini are a tribe of thread-legged bugs, assassin bugs of subfamily Emesinae.[1]
Selected genera[edit]
Genera of Metapterini include:[2][3]
- Anandromesa
- Barce
- Bargylia Stål, 1866
- Berlandiana
- Bobba Bergroth, 1914
- Emesaya
- Emesella
- Ghilianella
- Ghinallelia
- Hornylia
- Ischnobaena
- Ischnobaenella
- Ischnonyctes
- Jamesa
- Jamesella
- Leaylia
- Leptinoschidium
- Liaghinella
- Metapterus
- Nandariva
- Onychomesa
- Pelmatomesa
- Pseudobargylia
- Pseudometapterus
- Schidium
- Taitaia
- Tubuataita
References[edit]
- ^ Dunston Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 21 (9): 2406.
- ^ Valentina CASTRO-HUERTAS, Dimitri FORERO & Jocelia GRAZIA (April 2018). "Comparative genitalic morphology in ten genera of thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini, and its phylogenetic importance (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.
- ^ "Metapterini Stål, 1874". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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