Emesopsis Uhler 1893

Tatarnic, Nikolai J., Wall, Michael A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), Zootaxa 2762, pp. 1-30 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203726

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6182397

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/314487B3-6B50-FFA8-FF7A-EB9BFD81DC78

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Plazi

scientific name

Emesopsis Uhler 1893
status

 

Emesopsis Uhler 1893 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Recognized in Australia by the following combination of characters: head, thorax and S1 covered in dense wool-like pile; darkened areas of wings pitted with unpigmented dots, M and Cu separate at base of truncate discal cell; 2nd segment of rostrum distinctly swollen

Remarks. Emesopsis is probably the most morphologically diverse genus in the tribe. The genus has previously been diagnosed by the presence of a small subquadrate basal cell, however, this character is not present in one Australian species, Emesopsis infenestra , nor in an undescribed species from Lord Howe Island. Though these species lack a basal cell, they are otherwise clearly members of the genus. Furthermore, the basal cell has been found to be present in one wing and absent in the other within a specimen of E. fenestrella . The loss of the basal cell could result from the migration of the Cu and discal cell towards one another. This transformation of a large cell to small, and then obsolete subquadrate cell can be visualized by examining the wings of E. fenestrella , E. bunda and E. infenestra respectively.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae

SubFamily

Emesinae

Tribe

Ploiariolini

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