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Emesini

Insecta - Hemiptera - Reduviidae

Taxonomy

Emesini was named by Amyot and Audinet-Serville (1843). It is extant.

It was assigned to Emesinae by Standring et al. (2024).

Subtaxa

Alumeda, Danzigia, Emesites, Emesopsis, Empicoris, Empiploiariola, Malacopus, Paleoploiariola

Synonyms

Ploiariolini was named by Van Duzee (1916). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Emesini by Standring et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Emesinae by Popov (1989), Maldonado Capriles et al. (1993), Popov (1993), Popov (2003), Ghahari et al. (2013), Melo and Faúndez (2015), Popov and Chlond (2015), Popov (2016).
Metapterini was named by Stal (1874). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Emesini by Standring et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Emesinae by Popov and Weitschat (2005), Melo and Faúndez (2015).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1843	Emesini Amyot and Audinet-Serville
1874	Metapterini Stal
1916	Ploiariolini Van Duzee
1989	Ploiariolini Popov
1993	Ploiariolini Maldonado Capriles et al. p. 96
1993	Ploiariolini Popov p. 436
2003	Ploiariolini Popov p. 165
2005	Metapterini Popov and Weitschat p. 174
2013	Ploiariolini Ghahari et al. p. 204
2015	Ploiariolini Melo and Faúndez p. 159
2015	Metapterini Melo and Faúndez p. 161
2015	Ploiariolini Popov and Chlond p. 567
2016	Ploiariolini Popov p. 24
2024	Emesini Standring et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Heteroptera
infraorder	Cimicomorpha	Leston et al. 1954
superfamily	Reduvioidea	Latreille 1807
family	Reduviidae	Latreille 1807
subfamily	Emesinae	()
tribe	Emesini
tribe	Emesini

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Emesini Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843

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Invalid names: Metapterini Stal 1874 [synonym], Ploiariolini Van Duzee 1916 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Holocene or 37.71000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	Danzigia christelae, Emesopsis putshkovi, Emesopsis similis (123419)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Mexico (Chiapas)	Empicoris electricus (124928)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Mexico	Alumeda solorzanokraemerae (21977)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Alumeda nigricans, Alumeda dominicana, Alumeda antilliana, Malacopus wygodzinskyi (122474) Empiploiariola inermis (123393) Paleoploiariola venosa (122472)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Malaysia (Sarawak)	Emesites voigti (154233)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Dominican Republic	Empicoris copal (138880)