Species Ctenotrachelus shermani

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

flat assassin bug - Ctenotrachelus shermani

Ctenotrachelus shermani from northeast TX - Ctenotrachelus shermani

Florida True Bug for ID - Ctenotrachelus shermani

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 Ctenotrachelus

Species shermani (Ctenotrachelus shermani)

Explanation of Names

Ctenotrachelus shermani Barber 1930

named after Frank Sherman (1877-1947), US entomologist(1)

Size

11-12 mm (NCSU Insect Museum--dead link)

Identification

easily distinguished from species of other regional genera (Oncocephalus, Narvesus, Pygolampis, Stenopoda) of Stenopodainae by the antennal and femoral characters used in Blatchley’s key(2), but is further set off by the wide separation of the 1st and 2nd pairs of legs and a curious modification of the procoxal acetabulum. The ventral edges of propleura and mesopleura – in the region of their commisure – are flared outward to form a hoodlike covering over the coxal base... (3)

Range

se US (TX-FL-VA-AR) / Mex. / Cuba - Map (4)(3)(5)

Remarks

Type specimen is from Raleigh, NC, and was originally under the incorrect name Schumannia mexicana Champion (3), and this record was listed that way by Brimley (6) with a date of 28 June 1902.

Works Cited

1.	A Dictionary of Entomology George Gordh, David H. Headrick. 2003. CABI Publishing.

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

3.	Distribution of Ctenotrachelus shermani Barber, an assassin bug new to the fauna of Virginia (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) R.L. Hoffman. 2004. Banisteria 24: 54-55.

4.	New Distribution Records for the Assassin Bugs, Pnirontis brimleyi and Ctenotrachelus shermani (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) Adam Asquith. 1992. The Florida Entomologist Vol.75, No.1: 155-160 .

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

6.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Contributed by Cotinis on 1 May, 2008 - 12:23pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 3 June, 2023 - 4:42pm

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