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Species Zelus tetracanthus

Zelus tetracanthus? - Zelus tetracanthus

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 Zelus

Species tetracanthus (Zelus tetracanthus)

Other Common Names

Four-spurred Assassin Bug

Explanation of Names

Zelus tetracanthus Stål 1862

Size

10.6-16.8 mm(1)

Identification

Large, brown, with the usual two spines on shoulders (humeral) plus two spines on the top of the thorax.

Range

so. Canada (transcontinental) to Brazil & Paraguay - Map (2)(1)(3)

Remarks

our only representative of the subgenus Pindus Stål 1862

See Also

Rocconota annulicornis

Works Cited

1.	Genus Zelus Fabricius in the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Hart E.R. 1986. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 79: 535-548.

2.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 28 September, 2006 - 3:26pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 May, 2019 - 2:13pm

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