Haematorrhophus
| Haematorrhophus | |
|---|---|
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| Haematorrhophus marginatus (male and female) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectrichodiinae |
| Genus: | Haematorrhophus Stål, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Ectrichodia linnaei Stål, 1859 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Physorhynchus Amyot & Serville, 1843 | |
Haematorrhophus is a genus of assassin bugs in the subfamily Ectrichodiinae which specialize on millipede prey. Adult females are large, robust, and wingless. They have a six-segmented antenna which is longer in the males and less hairy in females. The first antennal segment is almost as long as the head. The fore femora are thickened and have tubercles on the underside. The fore-tibiae have a spongy furrow at the apex.[1]
Species in the genus include:[2][3]
- Haematorrhophus foevalis Murugan & Livingstone, 1995 - India
- Haematorrhophus horrendus (Kirkaldy, 1902) - India
- Haematorrhophus javadiensis Hegde, 1989 - India
- Haematorrhophus linnaei (Stål, 1859) - Sri Lanka
- Haematorrhophus malabaricus (Distant, 1904) - Western Ghats of India
- Haematorrhophus marginatus (Reuter, 1881)- India
- Haematorrhophus nigroviolaceus (Reuter, 1881) - India
- Haematorrhophus pedestris (Distant, 1904) - India
- Haematorrhophus rubromaculatus (Distant, 1904) - India
- Haematorrhophus ruguloscutelleris Murugan & Livingstone, 1995
- Haematorrhophus segnis (Bergroth, 1915) - India
- Haematorrhophus talpus (Distant, 1904) - India
- Haematorrhophus tuberculatus (Stål, 1874) - Collection location unknown
References
- ↑ Distant, W.L. (1904). The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume II (Heteroptera). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 318.
- ↑ Cook, Margaret L. (1977). "A key to the genera of Asian Ectrichodiinae (Hemiptera : Reduviidae) together with a check-list of genera and species". Oriental Insects. 11 (1): 63–88. doi:10.1080/00305316.1977.10432084. ISSN 0030-5316.
- ↑ Murugan, C.; Livingstone, David (1995). "Description of a new genus of Ectrichodiinae and two new species of the genus Haematorrhophus Stal from southern India (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 92: 386–389.