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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Stenopodainae » Stenopoda » Stenopoda spinulosa

Species Stenopoda spinulosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Near a central Florida salt marsh - Stenopoda spinulosa

Stenopoda spinulosa? - Stenopoda spinulosa

Narvesus carolinensis? - Stenopoda spinulosa

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 Stenopoda

Species spinulosa (Stenopoda spinulosa)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Often reported from the US in the past as S. cinerea. The actual S. cinerea (separated mostly by genital morphology) does not range into the US(1)

Explanation of Names

Stenopoda spinulosa Giacchi 1969

Size

22-30 mm(2)

Identification

Very large, straw-colored/grayish. Note these features (2) :

antennomeres 3 & 4, stripes on wing membrane, a patch on wing (anterior to membrane) are dark brown to black

front femora armed with prominent tubercles, in addition to hairs

brachypterous females (images here & here) larger than winged ones(3)

Range

NS-FL to KS-TX(2)(4)

Habitat

Perhaps rather arboreal(3)

Food

especially caterpillars(3)

Remarks

"...lurks about the branches and twigs of trees, watching for caterpillars and other insects upon which to leap and transfix with the curved acute rostrum, and while holding one between the fore femora and tibiae, soon sucks it to death." (Uhler 1884, fide Blatchley(3))

Works Cited

1.	Revisión del género Stenopoda Laporte, 1833 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Stenopodainae) Giacchi J.C. 1969. Physis 29: 1-26.

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

3.	Heteroptera of Eastern North America W.S. Blatchley. 1926. The Nature Publishing Company.

4.	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.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 25 June, 2007 - 4:40pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 17 April, 2018 - 8:17pm

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