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Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville 1825

Description

Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825

Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825: 280. Type species: Holoptilus ursus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825, by monotypy.

Lasiocera Laporte 1833: 47. Unnecessary new name for Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825. Holoptiloides Miller 1956: 436. Type species: Holoptilus adusta Miller, 1956, by original designation. Synonymized by Villiers 1986: 215.

Holoptilus: Westwood (1840: 251); Amyot & Serville (1843: 320); Stål (1866: 45); Stål (1874: 5); Lethierry & Severin (1896: 94); Distant (1903: 199); China (1940: 214); Hoffmann (1944: 13); Wygodzinsky & Usinger (1963: 50); Hsiao & Ren (1981: 411); Villiers (1986: 215); Maldonado-Capriles (1990: 337); Putshkov & Putshkov (1996: 170); Ambrose (2006: 2401).

Diagnosis. Body ovate, small sized; antennae and legs covered with setae much longer than diameter of respective segments; postocular part of head elevated at middle, the elevation bearing a radiating cluster of numerous long setae; ocelli widely separated; first visible labial segment about twice as long as combined length of the apical two segments; antennae 4-segmented, second and third segments not produced beyond base of third and fourth segments, respectively; hemelytra twice or more than twice as long as the abdomen, corium short, with three cells, membrane very large, with an elongated cell; tarsi 2-segmented; abdominal trichome present.

Distribution and diversity. The genus contains 25 described species, occurring in the Ethiopian, Oriental and southern Palaearctic regions.

Notes

Published as part of Shah, Syed Ishfaq Ali, Ahmad, Azaz, Li, Hu & Cai, Wanzhi, 2019, First record of Holoptilinae from Pakistan, with the redescription of Holoptilus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), pp. 541-549 in Zootaxa 4695 (6) on page 542, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.6.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3542692

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lepeletier & Serville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Holoptilus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Holoptilus Lepeletier, 1825 sec. Shah, Ahmad, Li & Cai, 2019

References

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