Holoptilinae

Holoptilinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Cimicomorpha
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Holoptilinae
Tribes

Aradellini
Dasycnemini
Holoptilini

Holoptilinae is a subfamily of the reduviid (assassin bugs), known as feather-legged bugs. Members of the subfamily specilize on ants. There are about 16 genera (one fossil)[1] with about 80 species described. Species in the Holoptilini tribe possess a specialized organ called a trichome to attract ants.[2]

Current phylogeny proposes three tribes Aradellini, Dasycnemini, and Holoptilini.[3]

partial list of Genera[4]

References

  1. ^ 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). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ise/1991/00000022/00000002/art00005. 
  2. ^ Weirauch and Cassis. Attracting ants: The Tricome 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
  3. ^ Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Ant-luring feather-legged bugs: the Holoptilinae (with G. Cassis and M. Bulbert, University of NS Wales and Macquarie University)". http://www.heteroptera.ucr.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=65. 
  4. ^ Patrick E. Reavell. "The Assassinbugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of South Africa". Department of Botany, University of Zululand. http://www.ru.ac.za/static/departments/zoo/Martin/reduviidae.html#holoptilinae.