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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) » Stenopodainae » Diaditus » Diaditus tejanus

Species Diaditus tejanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · 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 Stenopodainae
Genus Diaditus
Species tejanus (Diaditus tejanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Diaditus tejanus Giacchi, 1980
Size
About 8.1 mm to 9.6 mm (1)
Identification
Presence of lamellate setae along the prosternal channel seems to be the best character to separate from T. pictipes. [Dan Swanson, pers. comm.]
Range
SE USA (FL-TX) & Mexico (2)

State/Province Records: (3)(1)(2)(4)(5)
CAN: None
USA: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC, TX
MEX: Oaxaca, Yucatan
Remarks
Previously thought to be a coastal species (2)(4), recent records indicate it is not restricted to coastal areas (5).

Comes readily to lights. (5)
Works Cited
1.Revision de los stenopodainos americanos. V. El genero Diaditus Stål, 1859 (Heteroptera, Reduviidae)
Giacchi J.C. 1982. Physis (Buenos Aires), Secc. C. 41(100): 9-27.
2.Range extension of Diaditus tejanus (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Froeschner R.C., Mcpherson J.E., Sites R.W. 1995. Florida Entomologist. 78: 611-612.
3.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
4.New records for the genus Diaditus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) in America north of Mexico
Blinn R.L. 2009. Zootaxa 2125: 57-62.
5.New state records and distributional notes for some assassin bugs of the continental United States (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
Swanson D.R. 2011. Great Lakes Entomol. 44: 117-138.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 3 August, 2008 - 7:01pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 19 September, 2015 - 12:54am

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