Pnirontis Stal 1859

Diez, Fernando & Coscaron, Maria del Carmen, 2014, The Stenopodainae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Argentina, ZooKeys 452, pp. 51-77 : 63-64

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.452.6519

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C00B076F-3E7E-4B2C-8E54-59A0F78ACFB9

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4B1C21FF-A045-20AB-E1AF-D65995CA17A7

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scientific name

Pnirontis Stal 1859
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Pnirontis Stal 1859 View in CoL

Pnirontis Stål, 1859: 381.

Type species.

Pnirotis scutellaris Stål 1859; subsequent designation by Van Duzee 1916.

Diagnosis.

(After Barber 1930, Giacchi 1985, Giacchi 1988a) Body elongate longitudinally, fusiform and depressed. First labial segment almost three times longer than the second and third together, the second almost twice as long as the third. Scapus strongly incrassate, extended in an apical process that extends beyond the insertion of the second segment.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Reduviidae