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Genus Barce

Thread-legged Bug (immature) - Barce Thread-legged Bug - Barce fraterna Thin, brown thread-legged bug - Barce fraterna Barce - Barce fraterna - female Barce uhleri? - Barce uhleri Emesinae - Barce fraterna Unidentified nymph of something - Emesinae adult - Barce fraterna - female Thread-legged bug - Barce fraterna
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 Emesinae (Thread-legged Bugs)
Tribe Metapterini
Genus Barce
Explanation of Names
Barce Stål 1866
Numbers
6 spp. in our area, 7 total(1)(2)
Size
7‒13 mm(2)
Range
New World, mostly nearctic(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)
Pedro W. Wygodzinsky. 1966. New York : [American Museum of Natural History].