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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Corsairs (Peiratinae)

Subfamily Peiratinae - Corsairs

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Hemiptera - True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies

Suborder Heteroptera - True Bugs

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Family Reduviidae - Assassin Bugs

Subfamily Peiratinae - Corsairs

Genus Melanolestes

Species picipes - Black Corsair

Genus Rasahus

Species biguttatus - Rasahus biguttatus
Species hamatus - Rasahus hamatus
Species thoracicus - Western Corsair

Genus Sirthenea

Species carinata - Sirthenea carinata

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