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Genus Barce

Thread-legged Bug - Barce fraterna - female

Thin, brown 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].

Contributed by J. D. Bradshaw on 8 August, 2007 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 October, 2023 - 8:24pm

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