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Genus Phymata - Jagged Ambush Bugs


Taxonomic revision of the Nearctic erosa species group of Phymata Latreille, 1802 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae)
By Masonick P., Weirauch C.
CJAI 41: 90 pp., 2020

A review of the ambush bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae) of Michigan: identification and additional considerations...
By Swanson D.R.
Great Lakes Entomol. 46: 154‒164, 2013
Full title: A review of the ambush bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae) of Michigan: identification and additional considerations for two common eastern species 📥︎

Confirmed presence of the Ambush Bug Phymata vicina vicina (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae) in Michigan
By Swanson D.R.
Great Lakes Entomol. 50: 40-42, 2017

A preliminary revision of the ambush bugs of North America, (Hemiptera, Phymatidæ).
By Evans, J.H.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 24(4): 711–738., 1931
Abstract

Evans, J.H. (1931) A preliminary revision of the ambush bugs of North America, (Hemiptera, Phymatidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 24(4): 711–738.

Abstract

The present paper is the result of a study of as many North American species of this family as could be obtained. Approximately three thousand five hundred specimens were examined, and several undescribed species were encountered in both of the genera found in this region, namely, Phymata and Macrocephalus. Most of the work on the North American forms has been done by Europeans, especially Handlirsch and Melin.

Revision of Phymatinae (Hemiptera, Phymatidae)
By Kormilev N.
Philippine J. Sci. 89: 287-486, 1960
Arguably, the most important paper on this group

Two new species of Reduviidae from the United States (Hem.).
By Barber, H.G.
The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 24(4): 103-104., 1922
Full Text - BHL

Barber, H.G. 1922. Two new species of Reduviidae from the United States (Hem.). The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 24(4): 103-104.

Assassin Bugs of Virginia (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
By Hoffman R.L.
The Insects of Virginia 15: vi+73 pp., 2006

The Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Alabama, with a morphological key to species
By Clem C.S., Swanson D.R., Ray C.H.
Zootaxa 4688: 151–198, 2019