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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae) » Jagged Ambush Bugs (Phymata) » Pennsylvania Ambush Bug (Phymata pennsylvanica)

Species Phymata pennsylvanica - Pennsylvania Ambush Bug

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Jagged Ambush Bug Portrait - Phymata pennsylvanica - male Ambush Bug - Phymata pennsylvanica Mating Jagged Ambush Bugs - Phymata pennsylvanica Peekaboo - Phymata pennsylvanica - male - female Ambush bug and wasp menage a trois - Phymata pennsylvanica - male - female Raspberry Visitor - Phymata pennsylvanica - male Jagged Ambush Bug with blowfly prey - Phymata pennsylvanica Jagged Ambush Bug - Phymata pennsylvanica
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 Phymatinae (Ambush Bugs)
Genus Phymata (Jagged Ambush Bugs)
Species pennsylvanica (Pennsylvania Ambush Bug)
Other Common Names
Jagged Ambush Bug
Internet References
Insects of Cedar Creek - has pictures of Phymata pennsylvanica and information.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 July, 2004 - 9:36pm
Last updated 26 January, 2005 - 9:32pm

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