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Species Pygolampis pectoralis

Damsel Bug - Nabis genus? - Pygolampis pectoralis - male

Unknown assassin bug - Pygolampis pectoralis

Pygolampis pectoralis? - Pygolampis pectoralis

9083095 6 assassin - Pygolampis pectoralis

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 Stenopodainae

Genus Pygolampis

Species pectoralis (Pygolampis pectoralis)

Explanation of Names

Pygolampis pectoralis (Say 1832)

Size

13-16 mm(1)

Identification

antennomere 1 almost twice as long as anteocular area (head area anterior to the eyes) (vs subequal in P. sericea); front femora lack spines; beak segment one almost as long as segments two and three combined; apex of head at base of beak lacks spines; apex of antennal segment one lacks spine; one or more branched/bifid spines or processes on each side of head below and behind eye

Range

NB-AB to FL-CA / Mex. to Nicaragua - Map (2)(3), mostly e. NA to Mex.

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

2.	New state records and distributional notes for some assassin bugs of the continental United States (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) Swanson D.R. 2011. Great Lakes Entomol. 44: 117-138.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 June, 2007 - 1:10pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 August, 2023 - 11:52am

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