{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Handlirsch_pl_6_6.png | taxon = Oxythyreus | authority = Westwood, 1841 | image_caption = ''O. cylindricornis'' | type_species = ''Oxythyreus cylinricornis'' }}
'''''Oxythyreus''''' is a genus of ambush bugs. Species in this genus are known only from southern Africa.
Species include:<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Doesburg, P.H. van|author2=& D. Pluot-Sigwalt|year=2007|title=Notes on Phymatinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). The genus Oxythyreus Westwood, 1841|url=https://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=zoomed;idno=8101a03|journal=Zool. Med., Leiden|volume=81|issue=3|pages=85–99}}</ref> * ''Oxythyreus slateri'' <small>Doesburg & Pluot-Sigwalt, 2007</small> * ''Oxythyreus ruckesi'' <small>Kormilev, 1962</small> * ''Oxythyreus cylindricornis'' <small>Westwood, 1841</small> ** ''O. c. schuhi'' <small>Doesburg & Pluot-Sigwalt, 2007</small>
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{{taxonbar| from = Q21218365}} Category:Hemiptera of Africa Category:Cimicomorpha genera Category:Reduviidae Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood