Ectrichodiinae
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| Ectrichodiinae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Superfamily: | Cimicomorpha |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectrichodiinae Amyot & Serville, 1843 |
Ectrichodiinae is a subfamily of the reduviid (assassin bugs). Members of the subfamily are known for specializing on diplopods (millipedes).[1] The group comprises more than 600 species in about 115 genera (Maldonado 1990), making it a fairly large subfamily. The bugs are also known for their aposematic coloration, often brightly colored metallic blue, red, or yellow.[2]
Species of this subfamily hide under leaf litter and sometimes boulders and prey at night.[3]
[edit] partial list of Genera
- Austrokatanga Weirauch, 2009
- Borgmeierina Wygodzinsky, 1949
- Brontostoma Kirkaldy, 1904
- Caecina Stål, 1863
- Choucoris Cai, 2000
- Daraxa Stål, 1859
- Echinocoris Livingstone & Ravichandran, 1992
- Ectrichodia
- Ectrychotes
- Guionius
- Haematorrhophus
- Hemihaematorrhophus Murugan & Livingstone, 1995
- Labidocoris
- Pseudozirta Berenger & Gil-Santana, 2005
- Rhiginia Stål, 1859
- Scadra
- Stegius
- Synectrychotes
- Vilius
- Zirta Stål, 1859
[edit] References
- ^ Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Unlikely relationships: Ectrichodiinae + Tribelocephalinae". http://www.heteroptera.ucr.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=63. Retrieved Jan 14, 2010.
- ^ Ted C. MacRae. "Millipede assassin bug". http://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/millipede-assassin-bug/. Retrieved Jan 14, 2010.
- ^ Christiane Weirauch, Wolfgang Rabitsch, and David Redei. "Austrokatanga, gen. nov., new genus of Ectrichodiinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Australia". Zootaxa 2094: 1–15 (2009). http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02094p015f.pdf.
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