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Genus Gardena

Gardena elkinsi Wygodzinsky - Gardena elkinsi Thread-legged bug from Santa Cruz Island - Gardena elkinsi Gardena elkinsi - male Gardena elkinsi ? - Gardena elkinsi Bug or something worse? - Gardena elkinsi Bug or something worse? - Gardena elkinsi Bug or something worse? - Gardena elkinsi Gardena poppaea - male
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 Emesini
Genus Gardena
Explanation of Names
Gardena Dohrn 1859
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)
Size
G. elkinsi 9‒11 mm, G. poppaea 17‒20 mm(1)
Range
so. US (FL‒CA)(1)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.