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Welcome to Subfamily Phymatinae!

Phymatinae - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Hemiptera > Suborder Heteroptera > Infraorder Cimicomorpha > Superfamily Reduvioidea > Family Reduviidae > Subfamily Phymatinae

(From Wikipedia) Insects in the subfamily Phymatinae are commonly called ambush bugs.

FACT: A hunting style revolving around sit-and-wait ambush hunting has led these bugs to develop a quite mantis-like appearance!

Currently discovered: 1/4 Tribes

Tribe

  1. Phymatini