Genus Empicoris

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Empicoris sp. - Empicoris rubromaculatus

Emesinae of some kind ?? - Empicoris rubromaculatus

Thread legs under the dogwood leaf - Empicoris rubromaculata - Empicoris

Empicoris perhaps - Empicoris errabundus

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 Empicoris

Numbers

14 spp. (incl. at least 3 adventive) in our area(1)(2)

Size

4-8 mm(3)(4)

Identification

forecoxae at least four times longer than wide, and extending beyond apex of head; femora, tibiae, and antennae banded black and white; forefemora thickened, elongate; wings slender, extending slightly beyond tip of abdomen

Range

much of the US and so. Canada; many spp. in Eurasia

Habitat

on foliage or trunks/branches of trees and shrubs

Food

terrestrial arthropods

Print References

Lattin J.D., Wetherill K. (2001) Five species of Empicoris Wolff from Corylus cornuta and Corylus avellena in Oregon. Pan-Pacific entomologist 77(4): 275-276.

Internet References

live adult image of the holarctic E. culiciformis

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations By G.G.E. Scudder & R.G. Foottit

3.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera By Lehr, P. A., ed.

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

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 21 February, 2006 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, v belov
Last updated 28 January, 2012 - 2:42pm

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