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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) » Harpactorinae » Harpactorini » Repipta » Red Bull Assassin Bug (Repipta taurus)

Species Repipta taurus - Red Bull Assassin Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Repipta Taurus - Repipta taurus Satan Assassin Bug - Repipta taurus horned reduviid; Zelus sp? - Repipta taurus Red Bull Assassin - Repipta taurus spiny assassin - Repipta taurus Red and Black Bug - Repipta taurus 904W08 - Repipta taurus Repipta taurus
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 Harpactorinae
Tribe Harpactorini
Genus Repipta
Species taurus (Red Bull Assassin Bug)
Explanation of Names
Repipta taurus (Fabricius 1803)
taurus (L). 'bull'
Size
11-13 mm(1)
Identification
Note projecting spines on thorax, thoracic pattern
Range
se US (TX-FL-NC-OK) to Panama - Map (2)(3)
Remarks
Type Locality: "Carolina"
See Also
Zelus longipes (Linnaeus)
- Range: se US
Det. Iustin Cret, 2016
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Cotinis on 27 June, 2004 - 11:20am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, PaleoJon, Arturo Santos
Last updated 1 June, 2023 - 10:30am

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