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Sep 28, 2012 · Assassin bugs are one of the most successful clades of predatory animals based on their species numbers (∼6,800 spp.) and wide distribution in terrestrial ecosystems. Various novel prey capture strategies and remarkable prey specializations contribute to their appeal as a model to study evolutionary pathways involved in predation. Here, we reconstruct the most comprehensive reduviid ...
- Wei Song Hwang, Christiane Weirauch
- 2012
Feb 26, 2016 · Assassin bugs (Reduvioidea) are one of the most diverse (>7,000 spp.) lineages of predatory animals and have evolved an astounding diversity of raptorial leg modifications for handling prey.
- Junxia Zhang, Eric R. L. Gordon, Michael Forthman, Wei Song Hwang, Kim Walden, Daniel R. Swanson, Ke...
- 2016
Jul 17, 2024 · This study produces the first combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis for Reduviidae and reveals synapomorphies and diagnostic traits for clades at the ranks of subfamilies and tr...
Oct 1, 2009 · The first comprehensive cladistic analysis of Reduviidae, the assassin bugs, based on molecular data is presented and discussed in the context of a recently-published morphological analysis. Assassin bugs are essential components of ecosystems, but also important in agriculture and medicine.
- Christiane Weirauch, James B. Munro
- 2009
Jul 26, 2023 · Assassin bugs are predominately predatory and display a great diversity of morphological and behavioral specializations (Weirauch et al. 2014). The group comprises two families, the species-poor Pachynomidae (ca. 30 spp.; 2 subfamilies) and the diverse Reduviidae (ca. 7,000 spp.; 24 subfamilies), with the latter including the blood-feeding and medically relevant kissing bugs (Triatominae), the ...
- 10.1093/molbev/msad168
- 2023/08
- Mol Biol Evol. 2023 Aug; 40(8): msad168.
Oct 25, 2012 · The result of their painstaking work is a new phylogeny -- the representation of the evolutionary relationships between species -- for assassin bugs. It includes the most number of assassin bugs ...
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Sep 28, 2012 · Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) are the largest clade of predatory non-holometabolous insects (~6,800 described species) [1], [2] and one of the largest clades of predatory animals. In addition, Reduviidae have adapted to a wide range of terrestrial habitats and diversified in their prey choices while developing a wide repertoire of ...
