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Sphedanolestes

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Sphedanolestes
Sphedanolestes cingulatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Harpactorinae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Sphedanolestes
Stal, 1866
Species

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Synonyms
  • Graptosphodrus Stål, 1866
  • Haemactus Stål, 1874
  • Lissonyctes Stål, 1871
  • Sphactes Stål, 1870
  • Sphydrinus Stål, 1874

Sphedanolestes[1] is a large genus of assassin bugs in the family (Reduviidae), subfamily Harpactorinae.[2][3] There are more than 190 described species,[4] which are found in southern Europe, Africa and Asia.[5][6]

Species

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BioLib[4] lists the following:

References

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  1. ^ Stål C (1866) Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockholm, 23.
  2. ^ Dunston Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 21 (9): 2406.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b BioLib.cz Taxon profile: genus Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866 (retrieved 13 May 2020)
  5. ^ GBIF: Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866
  6. ^ Wanzhi Cai, Xinyan Cai and Yunzhen Wang (2004). "Notes of the genus Sphedanolestes Stal (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with the description of the three new species" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52 (2): 379–388.
  7. ^ Das S, Manohar S, Krishnan S, Sivarama JV, Ambrose DP (2008) Redscription, postembryonic development and behaviour of a Harpacorine assassin bug. Sphedanolestes himalayensis Distant (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Entomologia Croatica Vol. 12. Num. 1: 37-54.
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