Family Pachynomidae Stål 1873

We had followed Harris (1931, 1939, 1943) that treated Aphelonotus Uhler 1894 as a Nabidae, but this genus has now been included in the small family Pachynomidae Stål, 1873 (Carayon and Villiers, 1968); therefore it must be deleted from the catalog of Neotropical Nabidae .

Some authors have considered the family Pachynomidae as related to the Nabidae (Cobben, 1978), but all analyses have demostrated that it is the sister group of the Reduviidae (Schuh and Stys, 1991, Schuh et al. 2009, Weirauch & Munro 2009).