Species Sinea complexa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Which species of Sinea is this? - Sinea complexa

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 Sinea

Species complexa (Sinea complexa)

Explanation of Names

Sinea complexa Caudell 1900

Size

♂ 7.6‒9.1 mm, ♀ 8.1‒10.6 mm(1)

Identification

The only Sinea of the Southwest with spines on both lobes of pronotum and fore femur strongly swollen distally. S. incognita from the Midwest will also match this description and is most easily separated by range. S. integra from Mexico has a more cylindrical fore femur, and other North American species have spines only on the anterior lobe of the pronotum.

Range

w.US (OR‒CA to CO‒TX) & Mexico(1)

Works Cited

1.	Sinea incognita McPherson, a new species of assassin bug from America North of Mexico... McPherson J.E., Ahmad I. 2014. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 1‒19.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 18 January, 2015 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, drswanny, v belov
Last updated 2 August, 2024 - 9:50am

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