Holoptilinae

Holoptilinae
	Ant wolf or feather-legged bug, genus Holoptilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Holoptilinae; Lepeletier and Serville, 1825
Tribes
	Aradellini; Dasycnemini; Holoptilini;

The Holoptilinae are a subfamily of Reduviidae (assassin bugs) known as feather-legged bugs or ant wolves. Several members of the subfamily specialize on ants. About 16 genera (one fossil) are known,[1] with about 80 species described. Species in the Holoptilini tribe possess a specialized organ called a trichome to attract ants.[2]

Three tribes are included in the subfamily - Aradellini, Dasycnemini, and Holoptilini.[3]

Genera[4]

Aradelloides Malipatil, 1983
Aradellus Westwood
Dasycnemus
Holoptilus
Holoptiloides
Rudbeckocoris
†Praecoris dominicana Poinar, 1991
Ptilocerus
Ptilocnemus Westwood

References

Poinar, George O. "Praecoris dominicana gen. n., sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae) from Dominican amber, with an interpretation of past behavior based on functional morphology". Insect Systematics & Evolution, Volume 22, Number 2, 1991 , pp. 193-199(7).
Weirauch and Cassis. Attracting ants: The trichome and novel glandular areas on the sternum of the Ptilocnemus lemur (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114(1 & 2):28-37. 2006. doi:10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[28:AATTAN]2.0.CO;2
Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Ant-luring feather-legged bugs: the Holoptilinae (with G. Cassis and M. Bulbert, University of NS Wales and Macquarie University)". Archived from the original on 2010-07-17. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
Patrick E. Reavell. "The Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of South Africa". Department of Botany, University of Zululand. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23.

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[1] Poinar, George O. "Praecoris dominicana gen. n., sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae) from Dominican amber, with an interpretation of past behavior based on functional morphology". Insect Systematics & Evolution, Volume 22, Number 2, 1991 , pp. 193-199(7).

[2] Weirauch and Cassis. Attracting ants: The trichome and novel glandular areas on the sternum of the Ptilocnemus lemur (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Holoptilinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114(1 & 2):28-37. 2006. doi:10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[28:AATTAN]2.0.CO;2

[3] Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Ant-luring feather-legged bugs: the Holoptilinae (with G. Cassis and M. Bulbert, University of NS Wales and Macquarie University)". Archived from the original on 2010-07-17. Retrieved 2009-11-07.

[4] Patrick E. Reavell. "The Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of South Africa". Department of Botany, University of Zululand. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23.