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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Harpactorinae » Apiomerus » crassipes species group (Apiomerus crassipes species group) » Apiomerus montanus

Species Apiomerus montanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Harpactorinae
Genus Apiomerus
No Taxon (crassipes species group)
Species montanus (Apiomerus montanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Apiomerus montanus Berniker & Szerlip, 2011

Members of this species are usually assigned to Apiomerus crassipes by older sources.
Described in 1980 by Sigurd Leopold Szerlip in his PhD dissertation (1), which has not been officially published according to the standards of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature. Later officially described in a revision of the crassipes group (2). See this forum topic for details.
Explanation of Names
"Named for its distribution along mountain ranges in the western United States and Mexico" (2).
Size
Males: 14.0-16.0 mm.
Females: 14.8-16.1 mm. (2)
Identification
Black with bright red to deep plum corium. Pronotum black or with few red spots. (2)
Range
AZ-TX-UT-NV / Mexico along the Sierra Madre Occidental. (2)
Habitat
Mountainous regions. Collected from 1075-2896 meters. (2)
Season
mostly: Jun-Jul (BG data)
Remarks
This species exhibits a lower degree of polychromatism than other species. (2)
See Also
Sympatric with A. cazieri, A. spissipes, and A. flaviventris but easily separated by color. (2)
May closely resemble the allopatric A. californicus. (2)
Print References
https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2949.1.1?fbclid=IwAR1G5LUBMIvbTyYRXIleCLzVlyPn114yZFcdZntJoUPeO7eiZZL2VxtInds
Internet References
https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2949.1.1?fbclid=IwAR1G5LUBMIvbTyYRXIleCLzVlyPn114yZFcdZntJoUPeO7eiZZL2VxtInds
Works Cited
1.Biosystematic revision of the genus Apiomerus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in North and Central America
Szerlip, S. L. . 1980.
2.Revision of the crassipes and pictipes species groups of Apiomerus Hahn (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
Berniker L., Szerlip S., Forero D., Weirauch C. 2011. Zootaxa 2949: 1–113.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 May, 2008 - 9:59pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, drswanny, margarethe brummermann
Last updated 28 May, 2020 - 6:31pm

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