Ghilianella
| Ghilianella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| 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
- Ghilianella approximata
- Ghilianella beckeri
- Ghilianella borincana
- Ghilianella mirabilis
- Ghilianella phasma
References
- ^ Wygodzinsky, Pedro (1979). "A note on Empicorus seorsus Bergroth". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6: 53–56. doi:10.1080/03014223.1979.10428346.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Pascoe, F. 1888. [Exhibitions, &c.] Proc Entomological Society London 1:i (referenced in "The Other insect Societies p 314)