Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Hiranetis Spinola, 1840

Hiranetis Spinola, 1840: 112-113 [description]; Stål 1859: 367 [key], 371 [citation, species included]; Stål 1866: 294 [key]; Stål 1872: 69 [diagnosis, key], 82-83 [catalog]; Walker 1873a: 64 [key]; Walker 1873b: 129 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Champion 1898: 280 [comments]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 40 [catalog]; Elkins 1969: 459 [citation]; Putshkov and Putshkov 1985: 46 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 218 [catalog]; Maldonado and Lozada 1992: 165 [key]; Froeschner 1999: 206 [catalog]; Forero 2011: 15 [checklist]; Gil-Santana et al. 2013: 348, 358 [citations], 359 [separation from Graptocleptes]; Gil-Santana 2015: 29, 30 [citations], 35, 36 [separation from Graptocleptes and Parahiranetis], 37 [key].

Type species.

Hiranetis membranacea Spinola, 1840: 113-114, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

General appearance: wasp-mimetic. Head gibbous, large, as long as wide across eyes, densely covered with long setae on ventral and postocular portions; postantennal tubercles very short to almost imperceptible, acute or rounded; legs elongated, slender; fore femur slightly longer than head and pronotum together, thicker basally. Hemelytra long, surpassing the abdomen by about half of the length of the membrane.