{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Phymatinae_Blr.jpg | image_caption = ''Amblythyreus'' cf. ''intermedius'' | taxon = Amblythyreus | authority = Westwood, 1843<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2311.1841.tb03247.x|title=III. Description of a new Sub-Genus of Exotic Hemipterous Insects|year=2009|last1=Westwood|first1=J. O.|journal=Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London|volume=3|pages=28–31|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13708994}}</ref> }}
'''''Amblythyreus''''' is a genus of ambush bugs (Reduviidae: Phymatinae) found mainly in Asia with about 16 species. They are predators that lie in wait mainly in flowers, capturing prey using their forelegs.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Ambush Bugs of China: Taxonomic Knowledge and Distribution Patterns (Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Phymatinae)|author1=Cui, J. |author2=Cai, W. |author3=Rabitsch, W.| journal=Denisia |volume= 19|year = 2006| pages= 795–812| url= https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/DENISIA_0019_0795-0812.pdf }}</ref>
Species in the genus include:<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kormilev|first=Nicholas A.|date=1962|title=Notes on Phymatidae in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), (Hemiptera-Heteroptera)|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222936208651257|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|language=en|volume=5|issue=54|pages=349–367|doi=10.1080/00222936208651257|issn=0374-5481|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * ''Amblythyreus angustus'' * ''Amblythyreus chapa'' * ''Amblythyreus esakii'' * ''Amblythyreus fasciatus'' * ''Amblythyreus gestroi'' * ''Amblythyreus intermedius'' * ''Amblythyreus iranicus'' * ''Amblythyreus izzardi'' * ''Amblythyreus martini'' * ''Amblythyreus oberthueri'' * ''Amblythyreus potaninae'' * ''Amblythyreus quadratus'' * ''Amblythyreus rectus'' * ''Amblythyreus rhombiventris'' * ''Amblythyreus stali'' * ''Amblythyreus taiwanus''
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Category:Hemiptera genera Category:Reduviidae Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood