Subfamily Peiratinae Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 (assassin bug)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Alternative spelling: Piratides
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. K. Masonick et al. 2024
See also Ghahari et al. 2013 and Hwang and Weirauch 2012
Sister taxa: Centrocnemidinae, Ectrichodiinae, Emesinae, Harpactorinae, Holoptilinae, Hymenopterites, Phimophorinae, Phymatinae, Poliosphageus, Reduviinae, Stenopodainae, Tagalodes, Triatominae
Subtaxa: Peirates
Type: Peirates
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oeningen (von Seyfried collection) (Miocene of Germany)