First record of the thread-legged assassin bug Myiophanes greeni Distant, 1903 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from India

By

Kulkarni, Siddharth Shrikant
Ghate, Hemant V.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016-3-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

4

Pages

1--9

Subjects

India. , new record , Reduviidae , thread-legged bug

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7949

 

Abstract

While surveying bugs and spiders in the caves of Satara District, Maharashtra, one of us (SK) collected a thread-legged bug associated with a spider web.<br> A Sri Lankan Emesinae bug, Myiophanes greeni Distant (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) is reported for the first time from India. The species is redescribed with several illustrations including male genitalia.