Bagauda (genus)

Bagauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Emesinae
Tribe:	Leistarchini
Genus:	Bagauda Bergroth, 1903
Synonyms
Pleias Kirkaldy, 1901

Bagauda is a genus of thread-legged bug in the Emesinae. 18 species are currently known.^[1] Many of the species of this genus are associated with caves, some exclusively so. Bagauda is synonymous with the genus Pleias Kirkaldy, 1901, but Bagauda has become more widely used.^[2] The genus is restricted to Old World tropics.^[3]

Partial species list

Bagauda adami
Bagauda aelleni
Bagauda cavernìcola
Bagauda furcosus
Bagauda lucifugus
Bagauda smithersi
Bagauda tenebricolus
Bagauda zigzag Rédei & Tsai, 2010
Bagauda zetteli

References

^ D. Rédei (2005). "Bagauda zetteli sp. n., a new cavernicolous thread-legged bug (Insecta: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from Borneo". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 106 B. http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_106B_0135-0140.pdf.
^ David Rédei (2007). "The identity and taxonomic position of Pleias Kirkaldy, 1901 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)". Zootaxa 1583: 59–64. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01583p064f.pdf.
^ Dávid Rédei & Jing-Fu Tsai (2010). "A survey of the emesine assassin bugs of the tribes Collartidini, Leistarchini, Emesini, and Metapterini of Taiwan (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 57 (1): 11–36. doi:10.1002/mmnd.201000002.