Ploiaria

Ploiaria is a cosmopolitan genus of thread-legged bugs (Emesinae). There are presently about 130 described species.
Description
Ploiaria can be recognised by the head without ventral spine-like setae, the medially emarginated posterior margin of the prosternum, the posterior pronotal lobe covering only the extreme base of the mesonotum, the scutellum and metanotum lacking spines, the profemora lacking a process with several spine-like setae, and three-segmented protarsi. There is great variation in wing development between different species and within species, with macroptery (developed wings), brachyptery (reduced wings) and aptery (winglessness) all occurring in the genus.
Habitat
These bugs live in various habitats ranging from tropical forests to deserts and even oceanic islands (presumably reached by rafting on tree trunks). Their microhabitat range includes trees, epiphytes, leaf litter, under bark and under stones. The species P. chilensis and P. domestica are synanthropes, meaning they are associated with human habitats.
Diet
Ploiaria, like other emesines, are predators. They have been recorded feeding on prey such as Phlebotomus flies, mosquitoes and planthoppers.
Selected species
This list contains all species of Ploiaria currently considered valid, except for a few that have been described very recently:
Ploiaria abrupta Noualhier, 1895
Ploiaria albipennis McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria alexanderi Wygodzinsky, 1954
Ploiaria anak Distant, 1909
Ploiaria antipoda Bergroth, 1927
Ploiaria apicata McAtee & Malloch, 1926
Ploiaria aptera McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria armstrongi Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria assimilata Van Duzee, 1935
Ploiaria bakeri McAtee & Malloch, 1926
Ploiaria basilewskyi Villiers, 1961
Ploiaria bequaerti Wygodzinsky, 1953
Ploiaria berlandi Villiers, 1943
Ploiaria biroi Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria borbonica Villiers, 1971
Ploiaria brincki Wygodzinsky, 1958
Ploiaria brunnea McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria buscki Wygodzinsky, 1925
Ploiaria californiensis Baker, 1910
Ploiaria capeneri Wygodzinsky, 1952
Ploiaria capensis Villiers, 1949
Ploiaria carolina (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850)
Ploiaria carvalhoi Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria chilensis (Philippi, 1862)
Ploiaria circe (Kirkaldy, 1908)
Ploiaria concolor (Dohrn, 1860)
Ploiaria congoana (Villiers, 1949)
Ploiaria cunnamulla Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria darlingtoni Wygodzinsky, 1954
Ploiaria decorata Villiers, 1950
Ploiaria denieri Wygodzinsky, 1954
Ploiaria denticauda McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria disponsi Linnavuori, 1965
Ploiaria djurdjurana Dispons, 1951
Ploiaria domestica Scopoli, 1786
Ploiaria elegantula Villiers, 1952
Ploiaria ellenbergeri Villiers, 1948
Ploiaria fairmairei (Dohrn, 1860)
Ploiaria floridana (Bergroth, 1922)
Ploiaria funebris (Bergroth, 1906)
Ploiaria gabonensis (Villiers, 1948)
Ploiaria geijskesi Wygodzinsky, 1945
Ploiaria geniculata (Stål, 1874)
Ploiaria glabella Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria gracilipes Villiers, 1973
Ploiaria granulata McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria greeni Distant, 1903
Ploiaria guadeloupensis Villiers, 1978
Ploiaria gundlachi (Dohrn, 1860)
Ploiaria guttata Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria gutturalis Noualhier, 1895
Ploiaria hainana Hsiao, 1965
Ploiaria halosydne Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1960
Ploiaria hewitti China, 1925
Ploiaria hirticornis (N.Banks, 1909)
Ploiaria icela Wygodzinsky, 1958
Ploiaria insolida White, 1877
Ploiaria isadas (Kirkaldy, 1901)
Ploiaria jimmiwum Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria katznelsoni (Dispons, 1964)
Ploiaria kocheri Dispons, 1963
Ploiaria lestoni (Villiers, 1967)
Ploiaria longa Maldonado, 1972
Ploiaria longiventris (Dohrn, 1863)
Ploiaria maai Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria macrophthalma (Dohrn, 1860)
Ploiaria maria Maldonado, 1948
Ploiaria matilei Dispons & Villiers, 1967
Ploiaria maya Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria media McAtee & Malloch, 1926
Ploiaria megalops (Champion, 1898)
Ploiaria mellea McAtee & Malloch, 1926
Ploiaria metapterina
Ploiaria mimeuri Villiers, 1943
Ploiaria modesta Montrouzier, 1865
Ploiaria montivaga Dispons, 1963
Ploiaria mosconai Wygodzinsky, 1952
Ploiaria moshesh Wygodzinsky, 1958
Ploiaria musgravei Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria nilotica Villiers, 1973
Ploiaria nitida McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria noualhieri Villiers, 1943
Ploiaria obscura Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria oculata (Villiers, 1949)
Ploiaria pallida Montrouzier, 1855
Ploiaria palmarum Maldonado, 1974
Ploiaria paveli
Ploiaria penai Wygodzinsky, 1954
Ploiaria phyllodoce Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1960
Ploiaria pilicornis McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria plaumanni Wygodzinsky, 1966
Ploiaria poncei Maldonado, 1948
Ploiaria praedator (Champion, 1898)
Ploiaria praesentans (Distant, 1909)
Ploiaria punctipes McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria putoni Noualhier, 1895
Ploiaria recta McAtee & Malloch, 1926
Ploiaria regina Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria reticulata (Baker, 1910)
Ploiaria rufoannulata (Bergroth, 1911)
Ploiaria sachtlebeni Villiers, 1948
Ploiaria sefrana Dispons, 1960
Ploiaria setulifera McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria sexdentata Lindberg, 1932
Ploiaria sicaria McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria similis McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria sonoraensis (Van Duzee, 1923)
Ploiaria soudanica Dispons, 1960
Ploiaria speluncaria Villiers, 1979
Ploiaria stysi
Ploiaria texana N.Banks, 1909
Ploiaria thetis Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1960
Ploiaria tibestina Villiers, 1982
Ploiaria tillandsiacola Maldonado & Brailovsky, 1983
Ploiaria tuberculata Villiers, 1949
Ploiaria turkestanica Putshkov, 1984
Ploiaria ultima McAtee & Malloch, 1966
Ploiaria umbrarum McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria uniseriata McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria vandoesburgi Redei, 2008
Ploiaria varipennis McAtee & Malloch, 1925
Ploiaria villiersi Maldonado, 1978
Ploiaria vincenti (Villiers, 1966)
Ploiaria wahrmani Wygodzinsky, 1952
Ploiaria woodwardi Wygodzinsky, 1956
Ploiaria yunquensis Maldonado, 1948
References
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hemiptera/Reduviidae/OTHER/species_list.Weirauch,_Christiane.20060306.org
Reduviidae
Cimicomorpha genera
Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli