Genus Zeluroides

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References

Pale assassin - Zeluroides americanus - male

Zeluroides americanus? - Zeluroides americanus

Female, Zeluroides americanus? - Zeluroides americanus - female

Male, Zeluroides americanus? - Zeluroides americanus - 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 Reduviinae

Genus Zeluroides

Explanation of Names

Zeluroides Lent & Wygodzinsky 1948

Genus Zelurus + Greek eidos or oides, form of, resemblence. “In our key (LENT & WYGODZINSKY, 1947) the species of Zeluroides will run to Zelurus Hahn. They differ from the species of this genus by the granulation of the head and thorax, the minute tubercles of the ventral segments, and the very distinctive characters of the male and female” (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1948).

Numbers

2 spp. with 5 ssp. total, 1 ssp. in the United States

Size

18-21 mm

Identification

Of the three reduviine genera in the United States, this is the only one with reduced submedian tubercles on the anterior pronotal lobe (unarmed in Reduvius and Pseudozelurus)

Range

North American, restricted to the southwestern United States and Mexico.

Print References

Lent H., Wygodzinsky P. (1948) On two new genera of American “Reduviinae,” with a key and notes on others (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 8: 43-55.

Contributed by drswanny on 7 April, 2010 - 8:08am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 March, 2015 - 9:40am

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