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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 4: 31 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.4.2
Page range: 219-226
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An Apterous Specimen of Guithera feana Distant (Reduviidae: Emesinae: Leistarchini) from Karnataka, India

Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous), Shivajinagar, Pune 411005, India
Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 79409, Texas, USA
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India
apterous male assassin bug thread-legged bug taxonomy

Abstract

A relatively poorly known emesine bug, Guithera feana (Distant, 1903), was recently discovered in Karnataka, India. The original description of this species is based on a macropterous specimen collected from Burma (=Myanmar) and subsequently macropterous specimens were also collected from Siam (=Thailand) and from South India. This study presents the first illustrated description of an apterous male collected from Karnataka State, India.

 

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