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

Species Empicoris rubromaculatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Thread-legged Bug - Empicoris rubromaculatus Thread legs under the dogwood leaf - Empicoris rubromaculata - Empicoris rubromaculatus Empicoris? - Empicoris rubromaculatus Empicoris - Empicoris rubromaculatus Empicoris? - Empicoris rubromaculatus Empicoris? - Empicoris rubromaculatus - male - female unknown Hemiptera - Empicoris rubromaculatus Thread-legged Bug - Empicoris rubromaculatus
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 Ploiariolini
Genus Empicoris
Species rubromaculatus (Empicoris rubromaculatus)
Explanation of Names
Empicoris rubromaculatus (Blackburn 1888)
Identification
Can be easily distinguished from other species in the genus by the lateral carinae of the hind lobe of the pronotum being distinguishable only at the anterior extremities (in other species lateral carinae complete)(1)
Range
e. US (VA-FL to MO-TX) & w NA (BC-CA)(2)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.The Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Alabama, with a morphological key to species
Clem C.S., Swanson D.R., Ray C.H. 2019. Zootaxa 4688: 151–198.
Contributed by v belov on 26 March, 2009 - 9:39am
Last updated 26 January, 2020 - 4:42pm

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