Onychomesa

Onychomesa
Onychomesa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
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

  • Onychomesa sauteri Wygodzinsky, 1966
  • Onychomesa susainthani Wygodzinsky, 1966
  • Onychomesa gokani Ishikawa, 2000

References

  1. ^ Pedro W. Wygodzinsky (1966). "A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1–614. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1675. 
  2. ^ Dunston P. Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics". Zoos' Print Journal 21 (9): 2388–2406. http://www.zoosprint.org/ZooPrintJournal/2006/September/2388-2406.pdf. 
  3. ^ Tadashi Ishikawa (2000). "Onychomesa gokani, a new emesine assassin bug (Insecta : Heteroptera : Reduviidae) from Japan" (PDF abstract). Species Diversity 5 (4): 375–379. http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jssz2/spdiv/v5/abs/sd050406a.pdf. 
  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.