Saicella

Saicella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Cimicomorpha
Family: Reduviidae
Genus: Saicella
Usinger, 1958

Saicella is a genus of assassin bugs endemic to Hawaii.[1] There are currently six species in the genus.[2] Saicella's taxonomic position is uncertain, with characters similar to both the Saicinae and Emesinae subfamilies.

List of species

References

  1. Robert L. Usinger (1958). "A New Genus of Reduviidae from the Hawaiian Islands (Hemiptera)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 16 (3): 437–440.
  2. D. A. Polhemus (2000). "A revision of the endemic hawaiian genus Saicella Usinger, with descriptions of four new species (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 102 (1): 1–20.
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