Ghilianella
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| Ghilianella | |
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| Ghilianella clavellata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Emesinae |
| Tribe: | Metapterini |
| Genus: | Ghilianella Spinola, 1835 |
Ghilianella is a genus of true bugs in the subfamily Emesinae.[1] Fifty-eight species have been described, with a combined distribution from Guatemala to Brazil.[2][3] The linear form of the species in this genus allow the young larvae to be carried about by the mother or perhaps the father.[4] The larvae of the young can curl around the parent's thorax.
Species of the genus can be recognized by the laterally acute prolonged apical last abdominal segments.