Hotea

Hotea is a genus of shield-backed bugs belonging to the family Scutelleridae.

Hotea
Hotea curculionoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Family:
Scutelleridae
Genus:
Hotea

Amyot & Serville, 1843

Species
  • Hotea acuta Stål, 1865
  • Hotea circumcincta Walker, 1867
  • Hotea curculionoides (Herrich-Schäffer, 1836)
  • Hotea denticulata Stål, 1865
  • Hotea gambiae (Westwood, 1837)
  • Hotea nigrorufa Walker, 1867
  • Hotea redtenbacheri
  • Hotea subfasciata (Westwood, 1837

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Description

Male jewel bugs of the genus Hotea possess an unusually large, spiky, and heavily sclerotized genitalia. They are used in a mating practice known as traumatic insemination, a result of evolutionary sexual conflict. Male Hotea bugs tear through the female reproductive ducts to deposit sperm, inflicting substantial damage to the female in the process.[2]

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References
  1. Biolib
  2. Göran Arnqvist & Locke Rowe (2005). Sexual conflict Princeton University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-691-12218-2.
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