Epidaus

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Epidaus
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Epidaus conspersus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Epidaus
Stål, 1859
Type species

Burmeister, 1835

Epidaus is a genus of assassin bugs with about 25 species mainly distributed mainly in the Oriental Realm with two species (E. nebulo and E. tuberosus) which extend into the Palearctic Realm. Most species have a long and narrow body with the pronotum having a posterior margin with raised corners and spiny outgrowths facing outwards. The head a tubercle behind the base of each of the two antennae.[1][2]

Species included in the genus include:

  • Bergroth, 1915
  • Distant, 1904
  • Truong, Zhao and Cai, 2006
  • Distant, 1903
  • Breddin, 1900
  • Distant, 1919
  • Stål, 1863
  • (Stål, 1863)
  • Stål, 1863
  • Miller, 1941
  • Zhang, Zhao, Cao and Cai, 2010
  • Miller, 1941
  • Stål, 1863
  • Hsiao, 1979
  • Stål, 1859
  • (Stål, 1863)
  • Miller, 1941
  • Distant, 1904
  • Miller, 1941
  • Distant, 1903
  • Hsiao, 1979
  • (Burmeister, 1835)
  • Yang, 1940
  • Stål, 1863
  • Chen, Zhu, Wang and Cai, 2016

References[]

  1. ^ Zhang, Guanyang; Weirauch, Christiane (2014). "Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorini (Insecta: Reduviidae): Correlation of novel predation strategy with accelerated evolution of predatory leg morphology". Cladistics. 30 (4): 339–351. doi:10.1111/cla.12049.
  2. ^ Zhang, Wenjie; Zhao, Ping; Cao, Liangming; Cai, Wanzhi (2010). "Description of a new species of genus Epidaus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species". Zootaxa. 2517: 62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2517.1.7.
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