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Ghilianella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Reduviidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Subfamily
  
Emesinae

Similar
  
True bugs, Emesopsis, Ploiaria, Emesinae

Ghilianella is a genus of true bug in the subfamily Emesinae. Fifty-eight species have been described, with a distribution from Guatemala to Brazil. The linear form of the species in this genus allow the young larvae to be carried about by the mother or perhaps the father. The larvae of the young can curl around the parent's thorax.

The genus can be recognized by the laterally acute prolonged apical last abdominal segments.

Partial species list

  • Ghilianella approximata
  • Ghilianella beckeri
  • Ghilianella borincana
  • Ghilianella mirabilis
  • Ghilianella phasma
  • References

    Ghilianella Wikipedia