Gnathobleda Stal

Diez, Fernando & Coscaron, Maria del Carmen, 2014, The Stenopodainae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Argentina, ZooKeys 452, pp. 51-77 : 60

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Gnathobleda Stal

Gnathobleda Stål, 1859: 380.

Type speccies.

Gnathobleda fraudulenta Stål 1859.

Diagnosis.

(After Wygodzinsky and Giacchi 1986) Sericeous pilosity. Anteocular and postocular portions of equal length. Large, pointed, laterally compressed juga. Presence of 1+1 conspicuous tubercles on the pronotum. More or less developed posterior projections on the connexival segments.

Note.

Wygodzinsky and Giacchi (1986) synonymised Pnohirmus Stål, with Gnathobleda Stål. Latter, Wygodzinsky and Giacchi (1994) in the key to the genera of the Stenopodainae of the new world they included the subgenera Ganthobleda (Gnathobleda) and Gnathobleda (Pnohirmus) . In this article they did not mentioned the species for each subgenera. We do not use the subgenera of Gnathobleda due to this confusion.