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.