Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Reduviidae

Pnirontis Stal 1859

Pnirontis Stål, 1859: 381.

Type species.

Pnirotis scutellaris Stål 1859; subsequent designation by Van Duzee 1916.

Diagnosis .

(After Barber 1930, Giacchi 1985, Giacchi 1988a) Body elongate longitudinally, fusiform and depressed. First labial segment almost three times longer than the second and third together, the second almost twice as long as the third. Scapus strongly incrassate, extended in an apical process that extends beyond the insertion of the second segment.