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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 » Pselliopus » Pselliopus barberi

Species Pselliopus barberi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · 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
Tribe Harpactorini
Genus Pselliopus
Species barberi (Pselliopus barberi)
Explanation of Names
Pselliopus barberi Davis 1912
named for Harry G. Barber
Size
12-14 mm(1)
Identification
Stephen Cresswell put together a great page here: http://www.americaninsects.net/ht/pselliopus-barberi-vs-cinctus.html
Range
e. US (NY-SC to KS-TX)(2)
Habitat
on vegetation, often with flowers; also under bark in spring and fall, often in groups(1)
Season
Adults in May, Sep-Dec in e. NC(3)
Life Cycle
overwinter as adults
Works Cited
1.Heteroptera of Eastern North America
W.S. Blatchley. 1926. The Nature Publishing Company.
2.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.
3.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
Contributed by Matthew Roth on 11 April, 2006 - 8:24am
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, v belov
Last updated 7 July, 2020 - 3:07pm

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