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Genus Oncerotrachelus

Oncerotrachelus? - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus

Assassin bug - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus

Orange and black Assassin Bug - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus? - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus

orange and black assassin bug? - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus

orange assassin bug - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus

Orange Assassin Bug - Oncerotrachelus pallidus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)

Subfamily Saicinae

Genus Oncerotrachelus

Explanation of Names

Oncerotrachelus Stål 1868

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1)

Range

O. acuminatus e. US (NY-FL to KS-TX), O. pallidus OK-TX(1)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 19 June, 2007 - 12:03am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 May, 2013 - 7:48am

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