Emesinae

Overview of genera

Bagriella – Bargylia – Buninotus – Caprilesia – Carayonia – Emesopsis – Eugubinus – Gallobelgicus – Ghilianella – Hornylia – Ischnonyctes – Kiskeyana – Mafulemesa – Myiophanes – Neoschidium – Ocelliemesina – Oncerotrachelus – Onychomesa – Paratagalis – Polytoxus – Pseudosaica – Saica – Saicella – Saicireta – Tagalis – Wardamanocoris – ...

Synonyms

• Ploiariinae A. Costa, 1853: 70 [As Ploiariina]
• Saicinae Stål 1859: 328 [As Saicina ; Synonymized by Standring, Forero & Weirauch, 2023: 11]
  • Type genus: Saica Amyot & Serville, 1843
• Tagalinae Dohrn, 1859: 47 [Nomen nudum]
  • Type genus: Tagalis Stål, 1860
• Visayanocorinae Miller, 1952: 89 [Synonymized by Standring, Forero & Weirauch, 2023: 11]
  • Type genus: Visayanocoris Miller, 1952 [=Carayonia Villiers, 1951]

Primary references

• Amyot, J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères. 657 pp. Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. BHL Reference page.  [p. 393]
• Costa, A. 1853. Cimicum regni Neapolitani centuria tertia et quartae fragmentum. Napoli. 77 pp. Reference page.  [Not seen]
• Dohrn, C.A. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum. Entomologischer Verein in Stettin. Buchdruckerei von Herrcke & Lebeling. 112 pp. BHL Reference page.  [p. 47]
• Stål, C. 1859. Nova methodus Reduvina (Burm.) disponendi. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 3: 328. BHL Reference page.  [p. 328]
• Standring, S., Forero, D. & Weirauch, C. 2023. Untangling the assassin's web: Phylogeny and classification of the spider-associated Emesine complex (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Systematic Entomology 49(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12603 Reference page.  [p. 11]

Additional references

• Chen, Z., Li, H. & Cai, W-Z. 2020. A new species of Hornylia Wygodzinsky (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Emesinae) from Thailand. ZooKeys, 917: 105–115. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.917.46887 Reference page. 
• Gil-Santana, H. & de Oliveira, J. 2024. First record of Buninotus Maldonado Capriles and B. palikur Castro-Huertas, Forero & Melo from Brazil, with taxonomic notes (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Emesinae) and an updated key to the genera of Saicini of the New World. ZooKeys 1213: 29–39. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1213.118594 Reference page. 
• Masonick, P., Knyshov, A., Gordon, E.R.L., Forero, D., Hwang, W.S., Hoey-Chamberlain, R., Bush, T., Castillo, S., Hernandez, M., Ramirez, J., Standring, S., Zhang , S. & Weirauch, C. 2024. A revised classification of the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) based on combined analysis of phylogenomic and morphological data. Systematic Entomology 1–37. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12646 Reference page.  [p. 18]
• Polhemus, D.A. 2000. A revision of the endemic Hawaiian reduviid genus Saicella Usinger, with descriptions of four new species (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102(1): 1–20. BHL Reference page. 
• Tatarnic, N.J. & Cassis, G. 2011. The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Zootaxa 2967: 21–43. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2967.1.3 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Wang, J-Y., Wang, B-H., Cao. L-M. & Cai, W-Z. 2015: Ocelliemesina sinica, the second ocelli-bearing genus and species of thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Zootaxa 3936(3): 429–434. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.8. Reference page. 
• Wygodzinsky, P.W. 1966. A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1–614, pls. 1–4. hdl: 2246/1675 . Reference page. 

Links

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Emesinae Amyot & Serville, 1843 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Emesinae Amyot & Serville, 1843 – Taxon details on Catalogue of Palaearctic Heteroptera.

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