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Genus Ploiaria

looks like an assassin mantis but i have never heard of one - Ploiaria

Ploiaria setulifera McAtee & Malloch - Ploiaria setulifera

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 Emesinae (Thread-legged Bugs)

Tribe Leistarchini

Genus Ploiaria

Explanation of Names

Ploiaria Scopoli 1786

Numbers

~15 spp. in our area(1), >130 total

Range

worldwide

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 Charley Eiseman on 11 December, 2008 - 1:34am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 November, 2019 - 9:44pm

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