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| Pnirontis | |
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| Pnirontis modesta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Stenopodainae |
| Genus: | Pnirontis Stål, 1859 |
Pnirontis is a genus of assassin bugs in the family Reduviidae. There are more than 30 described species in Pnirontis.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]These 37 species belong to the genus Pnirontis:
- Pnirontis acuminata Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis barberi Hussey, 1954
- Pnirontis beieri Wygodzinsky, 1948
- Pnirontis bellatrix Hussey, 1954
- Pnirontis brevispina Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis brimleyi Blatchley, 1926
- Pnirontis buenoi (Lima & Seabra, 1945)
- Pnirontis demerarae Haviland, 1931
- Pnirontis edentula (Berg, 1879)
- Pnirontis elongata Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis filiformis (Walker, 1873)
- Pnirontis grandis Maldonado, 1994-01
- Pnirontis granulosa Barber, 1930
- Pnirontis grisea Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis guggiarii Hussey, 1954
- Pnirontis heminigra Maldonado, 1986
- Pnirontis incerta Reuter, 1887
- Pnirontis infirma Stål, 1859
- Pnirontis inobtrusa Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis languida Stål, 1859
- Pnirontis lissa Maldonado, 1986
- Pnirontis modesta Banks, 1910
- Pnirontis pallescens Stål, 1859
- Pnirontis perpugnax (Torre Bueno, 1914)
- Pnirontis scorpiona Berg
- Pnirontis scorpionia (Berg, 1879)
- Pnirontis scutellaris Stål, 1859
- Pnirontis selecta Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis serripes (Fabricius, 1803)
- Pnirontis sicki Wygodzinsky, 1947
- Pnirontis similis Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis spinimanus Champion, 1898
- Pnirontis spinosissima (Kolenati, 1857)
- Pnirontis stali (Mayr, 1865)
- Pnirontis subinermis Barber, 1929
- Pnirontis uroquadratus Giacchi, 1996-01
- Pnirontis zikani (Lima & Seabra, 1945)
References
[edit]- ^ "Pnirontis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Pnirontis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Pnirontis genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading
[edit]- Péricart, J.; Golub, V. B. (1996). Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 2: Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-15-3.
- Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34 (1): 15–48. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.498.8756. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x.
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