Ectrichodiinae

Ectrichodiinae
An unidentified ectrichodine preying on a millipede
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Superfamily:	Cimicomorpha
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Ectrichodiinae Amyot and Serville, 1843

The Ectrichodiinae are a subfamily of assassin bugs (Reduviidae) known for specializing on millipedes as prey.^[1] The group comprises more than 600 species in about 115 genera,^[2] making it a fairly large subfamily. The bugs are also known for their aposematic coloration, often brightly colored metallic blue, red, or yellow.^[3]

Species of this subfamily hide under leaf litter and sometimes boulders and hunt at night.^[4]

Genera

• Austrokatanga Weirauch, 2009
• Borgmeierina Wygodzinsky, 1949
• Brontostoma Kirkaldy, 1904
• Caecina Stål, 1863
• Choucoris Cai, 2000
• Daraxa Stål, 1859
• Echinocoris Livingstone & Ravichandran, 1992
• Ectrichodia
• Ectrychotes
• Glymmatophora Stål, 1855
• Guionius
• Haematorrhophus
• Hemihaematorrhophus Murugan & Livingstone, 1995
• Labidocoris
• Pseudozirta Berenger & Gil-Santana, 2005
• Rhiginia Stål, 1859
• Scadra
• Stegius
• Synectrychotes
• Vilius
• Zirta Stål, 1859

References

1. Heteropteran Systematics Lab @ UCR. "Unlikely relationships: Ectrichodiinae + Tribelocephalinae". Retrieved Jan 14, 2010.
2. (Maldonado 1990),
3. Ted C. MacRae. "Millipede assassin bug". Retrieved Jan 14, 2010.
4. Christiane Weirauch, Wolfgang Rabitsch, and David Redei. "Austrokatanga, gen. nov., new genus of Ectrichodiinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa 2094: 1–15 (2009).