Tolyxopus Villiers, 1969

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 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14826010
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Type species: Polytoxus muizoni Villiers, 1950a . By original designation, two species included.

Diagnosis: Postocular region of head protuberant; protuberance of posterior margin of scutellum anteriorly emarginate; humeral angles flat, meso- and metanotum processes conspicuously reduced, and procoxae nearly two times longer than protrochanters.

Examined material: Tolyxopus muizoni (Villiers, 1950) : one female, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: La Maboke , 25.ix.1967, L. Matile rec ( MNHN).

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MNHN	Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Reduviidae
SubFamily	Emesinae
Tribe	Saicini
SubTribe	Saicina

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