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Genus Barce

Stick Bug ID - Barce fraterna Leavenworth Stilt-legger - Barce fraterna - female Thread-legged Bug - Barce fraterna - female Thread-legged Bug - Barce fraterna Barce uhleri? - Barce uhleri Barce Barce fraterna? - Barce fraterna Emesinae - 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].