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 H. Ghahari et al. 2013
See also Hwang and Weirauch 2012
Sister taxa: Centrocnemidinae, Emesinae, Harpactorinae, Holoptilinae, Hymenopterites, Phymatinae, Poliosphageus, Reduviinae, Stenopodainae, Tagalodes, Triatominae
Subtaxa: Peirates
Type: Peirates
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oeningen (von Seyfried collection) (Miocene of Germany)