The Metapterini are a tribe of thread-legged bugs, assassin bugs of subfamily Emesinae.[1]

Metapterini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Stål, 1874

Selected genera

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Genera of Metapterini include:[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Dunston Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 21 (9): 2406.
  2. ^ Valentina CASTRO-HUERTAS, Dimitri FORERO & Jocelia GRAZIA (April 2018). "Comparative genitalic morphology in ten genera of thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini, and its phylogenetic importance (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.
  3. ^ "Metapterini Stål, 1874". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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