Hiranetis Spinola, 1840

Gil-Santana, Helcio R., 2016, First description of the male of Hiranetisatra Stal and new country records, with taxonomic notes on other species of Hiranetis Spinola (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), ZooKeys 605, pp. 91-111 : 94

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Hiranetis Spinola, 1840

Hiranetis Spinola, 1840: 112-113 [description]; Stål 1859: 367 [key], 371 [citation, species included]; Stål 1866: 294 [key]; Stål 1872: 69 [diagnosis, key], 82-83 [catalog]; Walker 1873a: 64 [key]; Walker 1873b: 129 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Champion 1898: 280 [comments]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 40 [catalog]; Elkins 1969: 459 [citation]; Putshkov and Putshkov 1985: 46 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 218 [catalog]; Maldonado and Lozada 1992: 165 [key]; Froeschner 1999: 206 [catalog]; Forero 2011: 15 [checklist]; Gil-Santana et al. 2013: 348, 358 [citations], 359 [separation from Graptocleptes ]; Gil-Santana 2015: 29, 30 [citations], 35, 36 [separation from Graptocleptes and Parahiranetis ], 37 [key].

Type species.

Hiranetis membranacea Spinola, 1840: 113-114, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

General appearance: wasp-mimetic. Head gibbous, large, as long as wide across eyes, densely covered with long setae on ventral and postocular portions; postantennal tubercles very short to almost imperceptible, acute or rounded; legs elongated, slender; fore femur slightly longer than head and pronotum together, thicker basally. Hemelytra long, surpassing the abdomen by about half of the length of the membrane.