Hotea

Hotea
	Hotea curculionoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Scutelleridae
Genus:	Hotea; Amyot & Serville, 1843

Hotea is a genus of shield-backed bugs belonging to the family Scutelleridae.

Species

Hotea acuta Stål, 1865
Hotea circumcincta Walker, 1867
Hotea curculionoides (Herrich-Schäffer, 1836)
Hotea denticulata Stål, 1865
Hotea gambiae (Westwood, 1837)
Hotea nigrorufa Walker, 1867
Hotea redtenbacheri
Hotea subfasciata (Westwood, 1837

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Description

Male jewel bugs of the genus Hotea possess an unusually large, spiky, and heavily sclerotized genitalia. They are used in a mating practice known as traumatic insemination, a result of evolutionary sexual conflict. Male Hotea bugs tear through the female reproductive ducts to deposit sperm, inflicting substantial damage to the female in the process.^[2]

References

^ Biolib
^ Göran Arnqvist & Locke Rowe (2005). Sexual conflict Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-691-12218-2.

[1] Biolib

[2] Göran Arnqvist & Locke Rowe (2005). Sexual conflict Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-691-12218-2.

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