Comparative genitalic morphology in ten genera of thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini, and its phylogenetic importance (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Stránky 91-125
DOI 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0009
Klíčová slova Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Ghilianella, Ghinallelia, Liaghinella, morphological characters, male and female genitalia, phylogeny
Citace CASTRO-HUERTAS, Valentina, FORERO, Dimitri a GRAZIA, Jocelia. Comparative genitalic morphology in ten genera of thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini, and its phylogenetic importance (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Prague: National Museum, 2018, 58(1), 91-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2018-0009. ISSN 0374-1036 (print) 1804-6487 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicals/aemnp/58-1/comparative-genitalic-morphology-in-ten-genera-of-thread-legged-bugs-of-the-tribe-metapterini-and-its-phylogenetic-importance-hemiptera-heteroptera-reduviidae
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae | 2018/58/1

The assassin bug tribe Metapterini belongs to the subfamily Emesinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Morphologically, it is characterized by the conspicuous basal process of the posteroventral series in the foreleg and the presence of wing polymorphism, with a high proportion of the genera with micropterous or apterous species. Here, the male and female ectodermal genitalic structures are documented for ten genera and twenty-three species of Metapterini, including eight species of the speciose genus Ghilianella Spinola, 1850. Descriptions and digital macrophotographs are provided for abdominal segment 8, pygophore, parameres, and phallus of the male, and for tergite 8, tergite 9, gonocoxae, gonapophyses, gonoplac, and bursa copulatrix of the female. The asymmetric male genitalia within Emesinae are discussed. From this morphological documentation sixty six phylogenetic characters are coded, presented as a data matrix and analyzed cladistically, and their potential usefulness for resolving relationships among Metapterini is discussed.

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