Macrocephalini

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Suborder Heteroptera Rank Tribe		Phylum Arthropoda Order Hemiptera Superfamily Cimicomorpha
Similar Phymatinae, Cimicomorpha, Assassin Bug

The Macrocephalini are a tribe of ambush bugs, which are a subfamily (Phymatinae) of the assassin bug family (Reduviidae).

They have a largely tropical distribution.

Selected genera

Extraneza

Eurymnus Bergroth, 1917

Goellneriana van Doesburg, 2004

Glossopelta Handlirsch, 1897

Macrocephalus

Metagreuocoris Villiers, 1965

Narina Distant, 1906

Oxythyreus Westwood, 1841

Parabotha Kormilev, 1984

Paragreuocoris Carayon, 1949

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