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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 » Harpactorini » Fitchia

Genus Fitchia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Assassin Bug Lunch and tiny party crashers - Fitchia aptera Reduviid b - Fitchia spinosula Fitchia Assassin bug or ? - Fitchia Fitchia aptera Fitchia aptera Reduviid - Fitchia aptera Assassin nymph? - Fitchia
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
Tribe Harpactorini
Genus Fitchia
Explanation of Names
Fitchia Stål 1859
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)
Size
~12‒14 mm
Identification
see (2)(3)
Range
NB‒FL to AB‒UT(3)
Print References
McPherson J.E., Taylor S.J., Keffer S.L. (1992) Evaluation of characters to distinguish Fitchia aptera and F. spinosula (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Fla. Entomol. 75: 222‒230. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Assassin Bugs of Virginia (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Hoffman R.L. 2006. The Insects of Virginia 15: vi+73 pp.
3.The Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Alabama, with a morphological key to species
Clem C.S., Swanson D.R., Ray C.H. 2019. Zootaxa 4688: 151–198.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 13 June, 2005 - 7:02pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, KenW
Last updated 4 May, 2024 - 5:55pm

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