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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Corsairs (Peiratinae) » Sirthenea » Sirthenea carinata

Species Sirthenea carinata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Peiratinae (Corsairs)
Genus Sirthenea
Species carinata (Sirthenea carinata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Current: Sirthenea carinata (Fabricius)
Orig. Comb: Reduvius carinata Fabricius 1798
Syn: S. stria (Fabricius)
Explanation of Names
carinata - Latin for keeled (1)
Numbers
Monotypic (2)
Size
20-25 mm (3)
Identification
Very large, elongate, yet robust bug with bold black and orange pattern
Range
TX-FL-NJ-MO (CA?) / Mex. to Brazil (2)(3)
Season
March-October in NC (4)
Food
Predatory on other insects, including mole crickets.
Life Cycle
Allegedly takes prey underground. Apparently comes to lights in late summer/fall.
Remarks
Type Locality: "Carolina"
Internet References
Predator of Mole Crickets
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
By Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner
3.A taxonomic revision of the New World species of Sirthenea (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae)
By Luc Willemse
4.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by Cotinis on 22 September, 2004 - 11:33pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 February, 2012 - 2:29pm

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