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Bactrodes Stal 1860

Description

Bactrodes Stål, 1860.

(Fig. 1).

Type of genus: Zelus femoratus Fabricius 1803, p. 291.

Description.­ Postocular region rounded. Eyes not passing inferior or superior edge of head. Each ocellus on a tubercle. Labrum brown to dark brown. Rostrum curved. Neck long, light brown. Pronotum with anterolateral angles developed, depressed posteriorly in lateral view. Meso­ and metapleura with short sparse setae. Scutellum smooth with two spines. Fore legs predatory, coxae very long (more than 3 times longer than wide), with sparse thin long setae, trochanters with a ventral spine, femur with two rows of brown spines ventrally, claws asymmetrical. Hemelytra not passing posterior edge of abdomen, chorion and clavus glabrous.

Notes

Published as part of Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen & Melo, Maria Cecilia, 2003, Revision of the subfamily Bactrodinae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), with a phylogenetic analysis of Bactrodes, pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 304 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156879

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Stal
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Bactrodes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Bactrodes Stal, 1860 sec. Coscarón & Melo, 2003

References

  • Stal, C. (1860) Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-Traktens Hemipter-fauna. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Handlingar, 2 (7), 1 - 84.
  • Fabricius, J. C. (1803) Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae, X + 314 pp. + 1 (emendanda).