The Metapterini are a
tribe
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of
thread-legged bug
The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by their very slender body form. They are stalking, predatory insects that can be collected on ...
s,
assassin bug
The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators: most other predatory Hemiptera are aquatic. The main exampl ...
s of subfamily Emesinae.
Selected genera
Genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
of Metapterini include:
* ''
Anandromesa''
* ''
Barce''
* ''
Bargylia
Bargylia (; grc, Βαργυλία), was a city on the coast of ancient Caria in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) between Iasos and Myndus. Bargylia's location corresponds to the modern Turkish town of Boğaziçi in Muğla Province.
T ...
''
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
External links
* http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hemiptera/Reduviidae/OTHER/species_list.Weirauch,_Christiane.20060306.org
Reduviidae
Hemiptera tribes
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