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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) » Microtominae » Microtomus » Microtomus purcis

Species Microtomus purcis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · See Also · Works Cited
Microtomus purcis Microtomus purcis (Drury) - Microtomus purcis Assassin bug? - Microtomus purcis Microtomus purcis? - Microtomus purcis Butterfly Beetle - Microtomus purcis Microtomus purcis? - Microtomus purcis Hemi703 - Microtomus purcis Insect found at a rest stop on I73 - Microtomus purcis
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 Microtominae
Genus Microtomus
Species purcis (Microtomus purcis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hammatocercus purcis (Drury)
Explanation of Names
Microtomus purcis (Drury 1782)
Size
22-30 mm(1)
Identification
Distinctive within its range; connexivum red, antennomere 2 annulated(2):

nymph and adults:
Range
se US to CO (MD-FL to CO-TX) - Map (1)(2)(3)
Habitat
under bark(1)
See Also
M. luctuosus - hind femora all black
- Range: c. TX to C. Amer.
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 Eric R. Eaton on 5 June, 2006 - 5:39pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, v belov
Last updated 15 July, 2019 - 9:22am

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