Biology:Lophoscutus

Short description: Genus of true bugs

Lophoscutus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Phymatinae
Tribe:	Macrocephalini
Genus:	Lophoscutus Kormilev, 1951

Lophoscutus is a genus of ambush bugs in the family Reduviidae. There are more than 60 described species in Lophoscutus.

Species

These 61 species belong to the genus Lophoscutus:

• Lophoscutus acunai (Bruner, 1946)
• Lophoscutus affinis (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
• Lophoscutus alayoi (Zayas, 1966)
• Lophoscutus armatus Kormilev, 1986
• Lophoscutus arnaudi Kormilev, 1988
• Lophoscutus asper (Stål, 1876)
• Lophoscutus aterrimus (Kormilev, 1981)
• Lophoscutus attenuatus (Champion, 1898)
• Lophoscutus balloui (Bruner, 1926)
• Lophoscutus bergrothi (Handlirsch, 1897)
• Lophoscutus brasiliensis Kormilev & van Doesburg, 1986
• Lophoscutus chemsaki Kormilev, 1984
• Lophoscutus confusus Kormilev, 1989-31
• Lophoscutus crassimanus (Fabricius, 1803)
• Lophoscutus dimorphus Kormilev, 1986
• Lophoscutus dominicanus (Kormilev, 1963)
• Lophoscutus dudichi (Kormilev, 1949)
• Lophoscutus froeschneri Kormilev, 1987
• Lophoscutus geijskesi Kormilev & van Doesburg, 1986
• Lophoscutus granulatus (Champion, 1898)
• Lophoscutus haitiensis Kormilev, 1987
• Lophoscutus hispaniolensis Kormilev & van Doesburg, 1991-24
• Lophoscutus inaequalis (Champion, 1898)
• Lophoscutus insignis (Kormilev, 1957)
• Lophoscutus insularis (Dudich, 1922)
• Lophoscutus israeli (Zayas, 1966)
• Lophoscutus julianus (Bruner, 1951)
• Lophoscutus kormilevi (Zayas, 1966)
• Lophoscutus lepidus (Stål, 1862)
• Lophoscutus leucographus (Westwood, 1843)
• Lophoscutus macilentus (Westwood, 1841)
• Lophoscutus margaritis (Kormilev, 1962)
• Lophoscutus marmoratus (Kormilev, 1966)
• Lophoscutus maurus Kormilev, 1989-01
• Lophoscutus michelbacheri Kormilev, 1984
• Lophoscutus mopsus (Handlirsch, 1897)
• Lophoscutus paracrassimanus Kormilev, 1988
• Lophoscutus paraspiculosus (Kormilev, 1953)
• Lophoscutus parvulus (Handlirsch, 1897)
• Lophoscutus patriciae (Zayas, 1966)
• Lophoscutus prehensilis (Fabricius, 1803)
• Lophoscutus productus (Barber, 1939)
• Lophoscutus pugil Kormilev & van Doesburg, 1992-31
• Lophoscutus pulchellus (Westwood, 1841)
• Lophoscutus pulcher (Kormilev, 1981)
• Lophoscutus rideri Kormilev, 1988
• Lophoscutus rileyorum Kormilev, 1990-30
• Lophoscutus rugosipes (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)
• Lophoscutus sagimani Kormilev & van Doesburg, 1986
• Lophoscutus schaffneri Kormilev, 1986
• Lophoscutus spiculissimus (Barber, 1939)
• Lophoscutus subproductus (Kormilev, 1962)
• Lophoscutus subsimilis (Dudich, 1922)
• Lophoscutus thoracicus (Valdés, 1910)
• Lophoscutus vesiculosus (Handlirsch, 1897)
• Lophoscutus virginensis Kormilev, 1986
• Lophoscutus viridis Kormilev, 1984
• Lophoscutus westwoodi (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)
• Lophoscutus woolleyi Kormilev, 1988
• Lophoscutus wygodzinskyi (Kormilev, 1949)
• Lophoscutus ypsilon Kormilev, 1990-30

Further reading

• Swanson, Daniel R. (2013). "A review of the ambush bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae) of Michigan: identification and additional considerations for two common eastern species". The Great Lakes Entomologist 46 (3–4): 2. ISSN 0090-0222. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264332521. 
• Péricart, J.; Golub, V. B. (1996). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 2: Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-15-3. 
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology 34 (1): 15–48. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. 

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