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Genus Diaditus

interesting gray and black bug - Diaditus tejanus

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 Stenopodainae

Genus Diaditus

Explanation of Names

Diaditus Stål 1859

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 6 total(1)(2)

Identification

revision in(3)

Range

New World; our spp: D. tejanus SC-FL-TX-AR; D. pictipes TX to Guatemala, D. semicolon FL, prob. not established(3)(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	New records for the genus Diaditus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) in America north of Mexico Blinn R.L. 2009. Zootaxa 2125: 57-62.

2.	New state records and distributional notes for some assassin bugs of the continental United States (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) Swanson D.R. 2011. Great Lakes Entomol. 44: 117-138.

3.	Revision de los stenopodainos americanos. V. El genero Diaditus Stål, 1859 (Heteroptera, Reduviidae) Giacchi J.C. 1982. Physis (Buenos Aires), Secc. C. 41(100): 9-27.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 3 August, 2008 - 7:00pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 January, 2020 - 5:29pm

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