Onychomesa

Onychomesa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Onychomesa
Wygodzinsky, 1966

Onychomesa is a little-known genus of thread-legged bug in the subfamily Emesinae.[1] Three species have been described, one from India, Japan, and Taiwan.[2][3][4]

Partial species list

References

  1. Pedro W. Wygodzinsky (1966). "A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1–614.
  2. Dunston P. Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal 21 (9): 2388–2406. doi:10.11609/jott.zpj.871.2388-406.
  3. Tadashi Ishikawa (2000). "Onychomesa gokani, a new emesine assassin bug (Insecta : Heteroptera : Reduviidae) from Japan" (PDF abstract). Species Diversity 5 (4): 375–379.
  4. 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.


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