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Lopodytes
''Lopodytes'' Rondani 1867〔Maldonado Capriles, Jenaro. University of Puerto Rico Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World. Special Edition of the Caribbean Journal of Science, 1990 ()〕 is a genus in the family Reduviidae, the assassin bugs. Unofficially, members of the genus have been assigned the common name Grass Assassin bugs, but this name is meaningful mainly to naturalists, because these insects are too obscure and too well camouflaged for many other people to be much aware of them.
==Description==
''Lopodytes'' species are small-to-medium-sized bugs, measuring between 10 and 20 mm in length. They are however very gracile and elongate in build, with nearly parallel sides, so they are far less massive than most insects of a similar bodily length. Usually they occur in savanna grass and similar vegetation, but on a level surface they generally adopt a very horizontal posture that emphasizes their resemblance to the thread assassins, the Emesinae. They easily may be confused with the Emesinae, but they are somewhat less gracile, typically 50% to 100% larger in linear measurement, and unlike the Emesinae, they do not have raptorial front legs.
In colour ''Lopodytes'' species generally are a range of dusty greyish yellows to browns, shades that combine with their shape to make them inconspicuous in the partly dried tussock grasses that they normally inhabit. They probably are noticed far less often in the field than when they come to lights at night in certain seasons.
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