Revision of the subfamily Bactrodinae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), with a phylogenetic analysis of Bactrodes
Author
Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen
Author
Melo, Maria Cecilia
text
Zootaxa
2003
304
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156879
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156879
Bactrodes
Stål, 1860
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(
Fig. 1
).
Type
of genus:
Zelus femoratus
Fabricius 1803
, p. 291.
Description. Postocular region rounded. Eyes not passing inferior or superior edge of head. Each ocellus on a tubercle. Labrum brown to dark brown. Rostrum curved. Neck long, light brown. Pronotum with anterolateral angles developed, depressed posteriorly in lateral view. Meso and metapleura with short sparse setae. Scutellum smooth with two spines. Fore legs predatory, coxae very long (more than 3 times longer than wide), with sparse thin long setae, trochanters with a ventral spine, femur with two rows of brown spines ventrally, claws asymmetrical. Hemelytra not passing posterior edge of abdomen, chorion and clavus glabrous.