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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Thread-legged Bugs (Emesinae)

Subfamily Emesinae - Thread-legged Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Habitat · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Thread-Legged Bug, Emesaya brevipennis - Emesaya brevipennis Empicoris cannibalizing Assassin? - Stenolemus lanipes Empicorus? - Empicoris BG1274 D1285 - Barce Thread-legged Bug To the storm door a mystery does come. - Stenolemus Very small Phasmid? - Pseudometapterus umbrosus
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)
Subfamily Emesinae (Thread-legged Bugs)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Considered by some to be a separate family: Ploiariidae. (1)
Size
Most northern sp. 30-35mm, southern sp. 5-10mm (1)
Identification
These bugs resemble small walking-sticks. (1)
Habitat
Cellars and old buildings. (1)
See Also
Hydrometridae - Marsh-treaders
Berytidae - Stilt Bugs
Print References
Borror & White, p. 120, illustratation on p. 121 (1)
Pedro W. Wygodzinsky, A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 133 (2)
Works Cited
1.A Field Guide to Insects
By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson
2.A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)
By Pedro W. Wygodzinsky
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Bradshaw
Last updated 16 April, 2007 - 8:48pm

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