Zamolxis (bug)

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Zamolxis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Zamolxis
Stål, 1865
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Zamolxis is a genus of assassin bugs (family Reduviidae), in the subfamily Harpactorinae. [1]

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References

  1. Maldonado Capriles Jenaro (1990). "Zamolxis gracilis (Stål 1855)". Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science, Special edition. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico. p. 325.