Macrocephalini

Macrocephalini
Glossopelta sp.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Phymatinae
Tribe:
Handlirsch, 1897

Macrocephalini is a tribe of ambush bugs in the assassin bug family Reduviidae.

Species of the tribe have a largely tropical distribution.

Selected genera

  • Doesburgella [1]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ RéDei, DáVid; Jindra, ZdeněK (2013-10-11). "A new genus and species of ambush bugs from South Africa (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae)". Zootaxa. 3721 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3721.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2025-06-18.