Pseudometapterus

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

Pseudometapterus is a little-known genus of thread-legged bug in the subfamily Emesinae. Members of the genus occur in North America and usually have wings that are extremely small or absent entirely, though a winged form of P. umbrosus is known from Southern Illinois.[1]

Partial species list

References

  1. J. D. Bradshaw and J. E. McPherson. "Discovery of Macroptery in Pseudometapterus umbrosus (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)" (PDF). Florida Entomologist 84(4) December 2001.
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