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Issue: Vol. 2762 No. 1: 10 Feb. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-02-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2762.1.1
Page range: 1–30
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 1

A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)

Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, USA
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Hemiptera Ploiariolini Assassin Bugs Taxonomy Australia keys to genera keys to species

Abstract

The Australian members of the emesine tribe Ploiaiolini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) are revised. A key, as well as diagnoses and figures, are presented for all 16 Australian species. Seven new species are described. Four species previously not recorded from Australia are included in the continent’s fauna. Emesopsis is expanded to include species in which the basal cell of the forewing is absent.

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