Carcinocorini are a tribe of

ambush bugs The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators: most other predatory Hemiptera are aquatic. The main examp ...

which are distinct in have a claw-like modification of the foreleg used to capture their prey. Such claw or chelae, which are common in crabs, are almost unknown in insects, present only in female wasps of the family

Dryinidae Dryinidae is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps. Its name comes from the Greek ''drys'' for oak: Pierre André Latreille, Latreille named the type genus ''Dryinus'' because the first species was collected in an oak plant in Spain. The larvae ...

. The name of the tribe is derived from the Greek ''karkinos'' for crab and ''coris'' for bug.

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Reduviidae Insect tribes {{Hemiptera-stub