Harpactorini, Amyot & Serville, 1843

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R., 2022, New records, taxonomic notes, and the description of a new species of Harpactorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 381-400 : 385

Tribe Harpactorini

Harpactorini is the most diverse group within Reduviidae , with about 53 genera in the Neotropics (Forero 2011, Gil-Santana et al. 2015, 2017). The only key to separate the genera, provided by Stål (1872), is now badly outdated (Forero 2011). Only a few Neotropical genera have been revised taxonomically or redescribed ( Forero et al. 2008, Gil-Santana & Webb 2019). A summary of publications containing descriptions and revisions within Neotropical Harpactorini were supplied by Forero et al. (2008) and Forero (2011); the latter author provided a checklist of Neotropical genera of Harpactorinae . Several further contributions have been published on the group (e.g. McPherson & Ahmad 2011, Forero 2012, Swanson 2012, Gil-Santana 2015, Zhang et al. 2016, Lapischies et al. 2019, Swanson 2021).