Petalocheirus
Petalocheirus | |
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Petalocheirus brachialis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Family: | Reduviidae |
Subfamily: | Salyavatinae |
Genus: | Petalocheirus Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 |
Petalocheirus is a genus of assassin bugs in the subfamily Salyavatinae. Species in the genus have a leaf-like broadening of the foretibia, and many species are known to be predators of termites. The genus is distributed in the tropics of Africa and Asia and species in apparently closely related genera such as may need further examination.[1][2]
Species in the genus include:
- Schouteden, 1931
- Stål, 1858
- Distant, 1903
- Costa, 1864
- Reuter, 1887
- Miller, 1950
- Stål, 1859
- Distant, 1903
- Bergroth, 1912
- Miller, 1950
- Palisot de Beauvois, 1805
- Villiers, 1943
- Miller, 1954
- Miller, 1950
- (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
- Miller, 1950
- {{small|Bergroth, 1903
References[]
- ^ Gordon, Eric R.L.; Weirauch, Christiane (2016). "Efficient capture of natural history data reveals prey conservatism of cryptic termite predators". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt A): 65–73. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.015. PMID 26314664.
- ^ Sheppe, Walter (1970). "Invertebrate predation on termites of the African Savanna". Insectes Sociaux. 17 (3): 205–218. doi:10.1007/BF02226194. S2CID 26006890.
Categories:
- Heteroptera genera
- Reduviidae