Genus Gardena

Classification · Numbers · Works Cited

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)

Genus Gardena

Numbers

2 southern spp. (FL to CA): G. elkinsi Wygodzinsky 1966 (9-11 mm) and G. poppaea McAtee and Malloch 1925 (17-20 mm) (1)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the True Bugs By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.

Contributed by v belov on 19 March, 2009 - 12:52pm

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