The Metapterini are a
tribe
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of
thread-legged bugs,
assassin bug
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 exa ...
s of subfamily Emesinae.
Selected genera
Genera
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of Metapterini include:
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Anandromesa''
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Barce''
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Bargylia''
Stål, 1866
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Berlandiana''
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Bobba
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Bergroth, 1914
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Emesaya
''Emesaya'' is a genus of true bug in the subfamily Emesinae
The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by their very slender body for ...
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Emesella''
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Ghilianella
''Ghilianella'' is a genus of true bug in the subfamily Emesinae. Fifty-eight species have been described, with a distribution from Guatemala to Brazil.
The linear form of the species in this genus allow the young larvae to be carried about by t ...
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Ghinallelia''
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Hornylia''
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Ischnobaena''
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Ischnobaenella''
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Ischnonyctes''
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Jamesa''
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Jamesella''
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Leaylia''
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Leptinoschidium''
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Liaghinella''
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Metapterus''
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Nandariva''
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Onychomesa
''Onychomesa'' is a little-known genus of thread-legged bug in the subfamily Emesinae
The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by th ...
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Pelmatomesa''
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Pseudobargylia
''Pseudobargylia'' is a little-known genus of thread-legged bug in the subfamily Emesinae
The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids b ...
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Pseudometapterus
''Pseudometapterus'' is a little-known genus of thread-legged bug in the subfamily Emesinae. Members of the genus occur in North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western ...
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Schidium
''Schidium'' is a large genus within the subfamily Emesinae
The Emesinae, or thread-legged bugs, are a subfamily of the Reduviidae (i.e., assassin bugs). They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by their very slender body form ...
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Taitaia''
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Tubuataita''
References
External links
* http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hemiptera/Reduviidae/OTHER/species_list.Weirauch,_Christiane.20060306.org
Reduviidae
Hemiptera tribes
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