Micropolytoxus Elkins, 1962

Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1), pp. 1-20 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14764743

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE2087BC-9F48-2122-FE80-141FDA1DFE2A

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scientific name

Micropolytoxus Elkins, 1962
status

 

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Type species: Micropolytoxus hackery Elkins, 1962 . By original designation, three species included.

Diagnosis: Humeralanglesflatorwithminutespines; mesonotum with a short spine, scutellum and metanotum with a welldeveloped short spine each; males and females macropterous or brachypterous; posteromedial process of pygophore produced and slightly curved ( Elkins 1962, Malipatil and Howarth 1990). In addition, first visible labial segment with thin, simple setae on ventral region; anterior margin of proepisternal supracoxal lobe projected; protuberance of posterior margin of scutellum entire; posteromedial process of pygophore nearly horizontal; and distal portion of endosomal sclerites triangular.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

SubFamily

Emesinae

Tribe

Saicini

SubTribe

Saicina

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