Ghilianella

Ghilianella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Ghilianella
Spinola, 1835

Ghilianella is a genus of true bug in the subfamily Emesinae.[1] Fifty-eight species have been described, with a distribution from Guatemala to Brazil.[2] [3] The linear form of the species in this genus allow the young larvae to be carried about by the mother or perhaps the father.[4] The larvae of the young can curl around the parent's thorax.

The genus can be recognized by the laterally acute prolonged apical last abdominal segments.

Partial species list

References

  1. ↑ Wygodzinsky, Pedro. "A note on Empicorus seorsus Bergroth". New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1979. Vol 6. 53-56.
  2. ↑ Dimitri Forero (2006). "New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries" (PDF). Zootaxa 1107: 1–47 (2006).
  3. ↑ Hélcio R. Gil-Santana. "Ghilianella beckeri sp. nov. of Emesinae from Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 53(1): 7-10, março 2009.
  4. ↑ Pascoe, F. 1888. [Exhibitions, &c.] Proc Entomological Society London 1:i (referenced in "The Other insect Societies p 314)
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