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Rhynocoris

Rhynocoris
Reduviidae - Rhynocoris rubricus.JPG
Rhynocoris rubricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Harpactorinae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Rhynocoris
Hahn, 1834
Species

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Synonyms
  • Scotarpax Amyot, 1846
  • Rhinocoris Kolenati, 1857 (Lapsus calami)
  • Charontus Stål, 1874
  • Chirillus Stål, 1874
  • Diphymus Stål, 1874
  • Harpiscus Stål, 1874
  • Hypertolmus Stål, 1874
  • Lamphrius Stål, 1874
  • Oncauchenius Stål, 1874
  • Coranideus Reuter, 1881

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Rhynocoris (historically often misspelled as "Rhinocoris") is a genus of assassin bug, family (Reduviidae), in the subfamily Harpactorinae.

Species of this genus are noted for providing parental care of offspring. Parental care is unusual in subsocial insects, having only evolved six times in the Heteroptera. R. tristis for example, is well known for guarding egg masses.

Rhynocoris kumarii is known to prey upon the larvae of Euproctis fraterna (Moore).

Rhynocoris annulatus

Rhynocoris cuspidatus

Rhynocoris erythropus

Rhynocoris iracundus

Rhynocoris punctiventris

Rhynocoris rubricus



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