Sphedanolestes

Sphedanolestes
Sphedanolestes cingulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Harpactorinae
Genus: Sphedanolestes
Stal, 1866
Species

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Sphedanolestes is a large genus of assassin bugs in the family (Reduviidae), subfamily Harpactorinae.[1] There are currently 173 described species,[2] most of which are found in East Africa and Asia.[3]

Partial list of Species

  • Sphedanolestes annulatus Linnavuori, 1961
  • Sphedanolestes aurescens Distant, 1919
  • Sphedanolestes cingulatus (Fieber, 1864)
  • Sphedanolestes himalayensis Distant, 1909
  • Sphedanolestes rubripes
  • Sphedanolestes sanguineus (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Sphedanolestes xiongi

References

  1. ↑ Dunston Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 21 (9): 2406.
  2. ↑ Maldonado-Capriles, J., 1990. Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). A special edition of Caribbean Journal of Science, Puerto Rico. 694 pp.
  3. ↑ Wanzhi Cai, Xinyan Cai and Yunzhen Wang (2004). "Notes of the genus Sphedanolestes Stal (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with the description of the three new species" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52 (2): 379–388.
  • Das, S. Sam Manohar, Krishnan, S.Sivarama, Jebasingh V., and Ambrose, Dunston P. Redscription, postembryonic development and behaviour of a Harpacorine assassin bug. Sphedanolestes himalayensis Distant (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Entomologia Croatica 2008, Vol. 12. Num. 1: 37-54


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