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Spined Assassin Bug (Sinea diadema)
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Copyright © 2007
Ed Corey
Spiky little baby -
Sinea diadema
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, USA
June 3, 2007
Found this little guy on a blackberry I was about to eat. ID'd as S. diadema by spines on the pronotum, instead of blunt tubercles.
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Contributed by
Ed Corey
on 6 July, 2007 - 9:19am
are spines diagnostic in nymphs?
Based on
this observation
, it appears that nymphs of both eastern species have spines on pronotum. Are we sure that nymphs of these species can be distinguished by this character?
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Russell Pfau
, 29 December, 2019 - 11:43am
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Here is a paper I just came a
Here is a paper I just came across that helps to distinguish nymphs between these two species. Yes, they both have spines as nymphs, so other chrachteristics need to be used as shown here, https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/99/5/755/12140
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Lorie Volenberg
, 13 July, 2020 - 7:56am
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