Hotea

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

Hotea is a genus of African and Asian 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

  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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