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Genus Pnirontis

Pnirontis modesta/languida? - Pnirontis - male

Spiny legged Assassin bug - Pnirontis infirma - 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 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

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