Epidaus

Epidaus
Epidaus conspersus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Epidaus
Stål, 1859
Type species
Zelus transversus

Epidaus is a genus of assassin bugs with about 25 species mainly distributed in the Oriental Realm with two species (E. nebulo and E. tuberosus) which extend into the Palearctic Realm. Most species have a long and narrow body with the pronotum having a posterior margin with raised corners and spiny outgrowths facing outwards. The head a tubercle behind the base of each of the two antennae.[1][2]

Species included in the genus include:

References

  1. ^ Zhang, Guanyang; Weirauch, Christiane (2014). "Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorini (Insecta: Reduviidae): Correlation of novel predation strategy with accelerated evolution of predatory leg morphology". Cladistics. 30 (4): 339–351. doi:10.1111/cla.12049.
  2. ^ Zhang, Wenjie; Zhao, Ping; Cao, Liangming; Cai, Wanzhi (2010). "Description of a new species of genus Epidaus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species". Zootaxa. 2517: 62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2517.1.7.

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