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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Pnirontis
Genus
Pnirontis
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
Stenopodainae
Genus
Pnirontis
Explanation of Names
Pnirontis
Stål 1859
Numbers
5 spp. in our area
(
1
)
Size
10-12 mm
Identification
tip of antennomere 1 produced into blunt spine
(
2
)
key to spp. in
(
3
)
(
4
)
Range
P. infirma
is widespread in e. US (NJ-IL to FL-TX), other spp. in se. US
(
2
)
Works Cited
1.
American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.
How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
3.
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.
4.
A Literature-based Key to REDUVIIDAE (Heteroptera) of Florida
Contributed by
Lynette Elliott
on 31 August, 2005 - 2:11pm
Additional contributions by
cotinis
,
v belov
Last updated 23 January, 2020 - 3:31pm