Biology:Henicocoris
Henicocoridae is a monotypic family of plant bugs created for the genus Henicocoris with the sole species Henicocoris monteithi. It was initially treated as a subfamily Henicocorinae under the Lygaeidae for the new genus Henicoris described in 1968 on the basis of a specimen collected in Queensland, Australia. It was later elevated to family rank and phylogenetic studies place it as a sister of the family Idiostolidae and is placed under the superorder Idiostoloidea within the Pentatomomorpha.[1]
Bugs in the family have an elongate ovoid outline and the head has ocelli. They have a four-segmented antenna and have three tarsal segments. The species was found in rainforest in Queensland, running actively on the ground at night. It lacks well-developed hindwings. The spiracles are ventrally placed.[2]
References
- ↑ Zhang, Danli; Chen, XiaoYan; Yang, Jingjing; Yi, Wenbo; Xie, Qiang; Yang, HuanHuan; Sweet, Merrill H.; Bu, Wenjun et al. (2024). "Phylogenetic placement and comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Idiostoloidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)" (in en). Ecology and Evolution 14 (5). doi:10.1002/ece3.11328. ISSN 2045-7758. PMID 38698924. PMC 11063732. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11328.
- ↑ "Henicocoridae". Australian Faunal Directory. https://www.biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/HENICOCORIDAE.
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