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Species Emesaya brevipennis

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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 Emesinae (Thread-legged Bugs)
Genus Emesaya
Species brevipennis (Emesaya brevipennis)
Numbers
One of five species in the U.S. (1)
Size
33-37 mm in length (1)
Identification
Covered with a silvery pubescence (1)
Range
Throughout most of the U.S. (1)
Habitat
Often found around the outsides of old buildings or in barns (1)
Season
May-early December (southern Illinois)
Life Cycle
Two flights of adults per year, in a population studied in Illinois. Overwinters as eggs.
Print References
Slater (1)
Wygodzinsky, P.W. 1966. A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 133. (2)
Hagerty, et al. Life History and Laboratory Rearing of Emesaya b. brevipennis (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) In Southern Illinois. Florida Entomologist 84(3) September 2001 (PDF)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
2.A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)
By Pedro W. Wygodzinsky
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 9 November, 2006 - 2:28pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn
Last updated 20 August, 2008 - 11:31am

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