Holoptilinae
Subfamily of true bugs
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::summary Subfamily of true bugs ::
| image = Ant wolf or feather-legged bug Genus Holoptilus 20140925 172336.jpg | image_caption = Ant wolf or feather-legged bug, genus Holoptilus | taxon = Holoptilinae | authority = Lepeletier and Serville, 1825 | subdivision_ranks = Tribes | subdivision = *Aradellini
The Holoptilinae are a subfamily of Reduviidae (assassin bugs) known as feather-legged bugs or ant wolves. Several members of the subfamily specialize on ants. About 16 genera (one fossil) are known, with about 80 species described. Species in the Holoptilini tribe possess a specialized organ called a trichome to attract ants.
Three tribes are included in the subfamily - Aradellini, Dasycnemini, and Holoptilini.
Genera
Source:
- Aradelloides Malipatil, 1983
- Aradellus Westwood
- Dasycnemus
- Holoptilus
- Holoptiloides
- Rudbeckocoris
- †Praecoris dominicana Poinar, 1991
- Ptilocerus
- Ptilocnemus Westwood
References
References
- Poinar, George O.. "''Praecoris dominicana'' gen. n., sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae) from Dominican amber, with an interpretation of past behavior based on functional morphology". Insect Systematics & Evolution, Volume 22, Number 2, 1991 , pp. 193-199(7).
- Weirauch and Cassis. Attracting ants: The trichome and novel glandular areas on the sternum of the ''Ptilocnemus lemur'' (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114(1 & 2):28-37. 2006. {{doi. 10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[28:AATTAN]2.0.CO;2
- Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Ant-luring feather-legged bugs: the Holoptilinae (with G. Cassis and M. Bulbert, University of NS Wales and Macquarie University)".
- Patrick E. Reavell. "The Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of South Africa". Department of Botany, University of Zululand.
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