Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825

Shah, Syed Ishfaq Ali, Ahmad, Azaz, Li, Hu & Cai, Wanzhi, 2019, First record of Holoptilinae from Pakistan, with the redescription of Holoptilus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), Zootaxa 4695 (6), pp. 541-549 : 542

Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825

Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825: 280 . Type species: Holoptilus ursus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 , by monotypy.

Lasiocera Laporte 1833: 47 . Unnecessary new name for Holoptilus Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 . Holoptiloides Miller 1956: 436 . Type species: Holoptilus adusta Miller, 1956 , by original designation. Synonymized by Villiers 1986: 215.

Holoptilus: Westwood (1840: 251) ; Amyot & Serville (1843: 320); Stål (1866: 45); Stål (1874: 5); Lethierry & Severin (1896: 94); Distant (1903: 199); China (1940: 214); Hoffmann (1944: 13); Wygodzinsky & Usinger (1963: 50); Hsiao & Ren (1981: 411); Villiers (1986: 215); Maldonado-Capriles (1990: 337); Putshkov & Putshkov (1996: 170); Ambrose (2006: 2401).

Diagnosis. Body ovate, small sized; antennae and legs covered with setae much longer than diameter of respective segments; postocular part of head elevated at middle, the elevation bearing a radiating cluster of numerous long setae; ocelli widely separated; first visible labial segment about twice as long as combined length of the apical two segments; antennae 4-segmented, second and third segments not produced beyond base of third and fourth segments, respectively; hemelytra twice or more than twice as long as the abdomen, corium short, with three cells, membrane very large, with an elongated cell; tarsi 2-segmented; abdominal trichome present.

Distribution and diversity. The genus contains 25 described species, occurring in the Ethiopian, Oriental and southern Palaearctic regions.