Ghilianella

Ghilianella
Ghilianella clavellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Ghilianella
Spinola, 1835

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

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

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ Wygodzinsky, Pedro (1979). "A note on Empicorus seorsus Bergroth". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6: 53–56. doi:10.1080/03014223.1979.10428346.
  2. ↑ Dimitri Forero (2006). "New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries" (PDF). Zootaxa 1107: 1–47 (2006). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-28.
  3. ↑ Hélcio R. Gil-Santana (March 2009). "Ghilianella beckeri sp. nov. of Emesinae from Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 53 (1): 7–10. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262009000100003.
  4. ↑ Pascoe, F. 1888. [Exhibitions, &c.] Proc Entomological Society London 1:i (referenced in "The Other insect Societies p 314)