Subfamily Harpactorinae Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 (assassin bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae

Alternative spelling: Harpactorides

Full reference: C. J. B. Amyot and J. G. Audinet-Serville. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères 1-676

Parent taxon: Reduviidae according to P. Zhang et al. 2025

See also Ghahari et al. 2013, Masonick et al. 2024, Melo and Faúndez 2015, Swanson et al. 2021 and Zhang and Weirauch 2014

Sister taxa: Centrocnemidinae, Ectrichodiinae, Emesinae, Holoptilinae, Hymenopterites, Peiratinae, Phimophorinae, Phymatinae, Poliosphageus, Reduviinae, Stenopodainae, Tagalodes, Triatominae

Subtaxa: Apiomerini Harpactorini

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Type: Harpactor

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Turolian of France (1 collection)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Germany (5)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Colorado)

Total: 12 collections including 15 occurrences

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