Species Apiomerus cazieri

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Works Cited

Red bee assassin - Apiomerus cazieri - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)

Genus Apiomerus

Species cazieri (Apiomerus cazieri)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Described in 1980 by Sigurd Leopold Szerlip in his PhD dissertation (1), which has not been officially published according to the standards of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature. That means that, technically speaking, there is no valid name for this species. Some references use it anyway, as Apiomerus cazieri Szerlip 1980. See this forum topic for details

Works Cited

1.	Biosystematic revision of the genus Apiomerus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in North and Central America By Szerlip, S. L.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 May, 2008 - 9:58pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz
Last updated 24 June, 2009 - 1:31am

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