Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville 1825
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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.
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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
- Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, A. (1825) Encyclopedie Methodique (Olivier, G. A., ed.). Agasse, Paris, 10, 1 - 344.
- Laporte, F. L. de. (1833) Essai d'une classification systematique de l'ordre des Hemipteres (Heteropteres Latr.). Magasin de Zoologie, 2 (Suppl.), 1 - 88.
- Miller, N. C. E. (1956) Chapter 20. Hemiptera (Heteroptera): Reduviidae. In: Hanstrom, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (Eds.), South African animal life - Results of the Lund University expedition in 1950 - 1951, 3, pp. 432 - 492.
- Villiers, A. (1986) Hemipteres Reduviidae africains. VI. Holoptilinae. Description d'un nouvelle espece de Tai. Revue Francaise d'Entomologie N. S., 7, 215 - 217.
- Westwood, J. O. (1840) Memoir on the genus Holoptilus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 2, 248 - 253.
- Amyot, C. J. B. & Serville, A. (1843) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Roret, Paris, LXXVI + 675 pp.
- Stal, C. (1866) Hemiptera Africana 3. Norstedtiana, Holmiae, 200 pp.
- Stal, C. (1874) Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en forteckning ofver alla hittills kanda Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 4 Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handingar, N. F., 12 (1), 1 - 186.
- Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. (1896) Catalogue general des Hemipteres. Tome III. Heteropteres, Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduviidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Friedlander & Fils, Berlin, 275 pp.
- Distant, W. L. (1903 - 1904) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota 2 (Heteroptera). Taylor and Francis, London, 503 pp. [pp. 1 - 242 (1903), pp. 243 - 503 (1904)]
- China, W. E. (1940) Key to subfamilies and genera of Chinese Reduviidae with descriptions of new genera and species. Lingnan Science Journal, 19, 205 - 255.
- Hoffmann, W. E. (1944) Catalogue of Reduviidae of China. Lingnan University Science Bulletin, 10, 1 - 80.
- Wygodzinsky, P. & Usinger, R. L. (1963) Classification of the Holoptilinae and description of the first representative from the New World (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 32, 47 - 52.
- Hsiao, T. Y. & Ren, S. Z. (1981) Reduviidae. In: Hsiao, T. Y., Ren, S. Z., Zheng, L. Y., Jing, X. L., Zou, H. G. & Liu, S. L. (Eds.), A Handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera (II). Science Press, Beijing, pp. 390 - 538. [in Chinese with English summary]
- 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.
- Putshkov, P. V. & Putshkov, V. G. (1996) Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807, assassin-bugs. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, C. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Volume 2 Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 148 - 265.
- Ambrose, D. P. (2006) A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics. Zoos' Prints Journal, 21 (9), 2388 - 2406.