Apiomerini Amyot & Serville 1843
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Tribe Apiomerini
Currently, there are 12 extant genera in Apiomerini, seven of which are monotypic, among them Calliclopius Stål, 1868 and Sphodrolestes Stål, 1867 (Gil-Santana et al. 2002, 2003, 2015, Bérenger 2006). Gil-Santana et al. (2003) provided a synopsis of the genera and biology of the group, summarized and updated by Gil-Santana et al. (2015) who also presented a key to their genera. With the exception of Apiomerus Hahn,1831 which has several Neartic species as well, other Apiomerini are exclusively Neotropical in distribution (Froeschner 1988, Maldonado 1990, Gil-Santana et al. 2003, 2015, Bérenger 2006, Berniker et al. 2011).
Besides the aposematism, as commented above, several species of different genera of Apiomerini join in diverse mimicry systems, in which a general dark body coloration is combined with reddish or pale markings on the midportion of hemelytra (Gil-Santana et al. 2003).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Amyot & Serville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Reduviidae
- Taxon rank
- tribe
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apiomerini Amyot, 1843 sec. Gil-Santana, 2022
References
- Stal, C. (1868) Hemiptera Fabriciana. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 7, 1 - 148.
- Stal, C. (1867) Bidrag till Reduviidernas kannedom. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 23, 235 - 302.
- Gil-Santana, H. R., Costa, L. A. A. & Zeraik, S. O. (2002) Sinonimizacao de Paramanicocoris Lima, Hathaway & Seabra, 1948 e Manicocoris Stal, 1866, com redescricao de M. rubroniger (Lima, Hathaway & Seabra, 1948), comb. nov. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Apiomerini). Boletim do Museu Nacional, Nova Serie, Zoologia, 490, 1 - 7.
- Berenger, J. - M. (2006) Un nouveau genre d'Apiomerini du Bresil (Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, New Series, 22 (4), 369 - 375.
- Gil-Santana, H. R., Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. (2015) Assassin bugs (Reduviidae excluding Triatominae). In: Panizzi, A. R. & Grazia, J. (Eds.), True bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics, Entomology in Focus 2. Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 307 - 351. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 017 - 9861 - 7 _ 12
- Froeschner, R. C. (1988) Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 - The assassin bugs. In: Henry, T. J. & Froeschner, R. C. (Eds.), Catalog of the Heteroptera, or true bugs, of Canada and the continental United States. E. J. Brill, New York, New York, pp. 616 - 651. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / 9781351070447 - 36
- Maldonado, J. C. (1990) Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World. Caribbean Journal of Science, Special publication No. 1. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 694 pp.
- Berniker, L., Szerlip, S., Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. (2011) Revision of the crassipes and pictipes species groups of Apiomerus Hahn (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Zootaxa, 2949 (1), 1 - 113. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2949.1.1