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Epidaus
Sign in to saveEpidaus is a genus of assassin bugs with about 25 species mainly distributed in the Oriental Realm with two species (E. nebulo and E. tuberosus) which extend into the Palearctic Realm. Most species have a long and narrow body with the pronotum having a posterior margin with raised corners and spiny outgrowths facing outwards. The head a tubercle behind the base of each of the two antennae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Reduviidae
- Collections
- USNM, UCR
- Recorded in
- China, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia
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- Parent taxon
- Harpactorini
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- Epidaus conspersus fbi.png
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Epidaus is a genus of assassin bugs with about 25 species mainly distributed in the Oriental Realm with two species (E. nebulo and E. tuberosus) which extend into the Palearctic Realm. Most species have a long and narrow body with the pronotum having a posterior margin with raised corners and spiny outgrowths facing outwards. The head a tubercle behind the base of each of the two antennae.
Species included in the genus include: Epidaus alternus Epidaus atrispinus Epidaus bachmaensis Epidaus bicolor Epidaus compressispinus Epidaus connectens Epidaus conspersus Epidaus famulus Epidaus furculatus Epidaus incomptus Epidaus insularis Epidaus kedahensis Epidaus latispinus Epidaus longispinus Epidaus maculiger Epidaus nebulo Epidaus pantolabus Epidaus parvus Epidaus pellax Epidaus pretiosus Epidaus sexspinus Epidaus transversus Epidaus tuberosus Epidaus validispinus Epidaus wangi
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