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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) » Saicinae

Subfamily Saicinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Assassin nymph ? - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus Assassin? - Pseudosaica florida Heteroptera ID Request - Oncerotrachelus pallidus Bug - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus Damsel bug? - Oncerotrachelus acuminatus lateral view - Pseudosaica florida Orange Assassin Bug - Oncerotrachelus pallidus Pseudosaica florida
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 Saicinae
Explanation of Names
Saicinae Stål 1859; type genus: Saica
Numbers
6 spp. in 4 genera north of Mexico, 140 spp. in >20 genera worldwide(1)
Size
4-14 mm
Identification
Ocelli absent and second rostral segment swollen at base.
Key to spp. in(2)
Range
Worldwide; in our area, midwestern, southeastern and south central United States
Habitat
On the ground, at the bases of grasses, sometimes on lower herbage. Often come to lights at night.
Food
Generalist predators.
Remarks
Closely related to the Emesinae.
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of the Saicinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) of America north of Mexico, with the description of a new species of Saica...
Blinn R.L. 1994. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 102: 62-66.
2.Tagalis inornata cubensis McAtee & Malloch (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae): First record from the continental US
Blinn R.L. 2008. Zootaxa 1912: 66–68.
Contributed by v belov on 2 March, 2010 - 8:56pm
Additional contributions by drswanny
Last updated 13 March, 2015 - 7:59am

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