Ghilianella

Ghilianella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Ghilianella
Spinola, 1835

Ghilianella is a genus of true bug in the subfamily Emesinae.[1] Fifty-eight species have been described, with a distribution from Guatemala to Brazil.[2] [3] The linear form of the species in this genus allow the young larvae to be carried about by the mother or perhaps the father.[4] The larvae of the young can curl around the parent's thorax.

The genus can be recognized by the laterally acute prolonged apical last abdominal segments.

Partial species list

References

  1. Wygodzinsky, Pedro. "A note on Empicorus seorsus Bergroth". New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1979. Vol 6. 53-56.
  2. Dimitri Forero (2006). "New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries" (PDF). Zootaxa 1107: 1–47 (2006).
  3. Hélcio R. Gil-Santana. "Ghilianella beckeri sp. nov. of Emesinae from Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 53(1): 7-10, março 2009.
  4. Pascoe, F. 1888. [Exhibitions, &c.] Proc Entomological Society London 1:i (referenced in "The Other insect Societies p 314)
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