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Species Nabis americoferus

Damsel bug 10.05.31 - Nabis americoferus

Narrow, light brown bug - Nabis americoferus

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 Nabidae (Damsel Bugs)

Subfamily Nabinae

Tribe Nabini

Genus Nabis

No Taxon (subgenus Reduviolus)

Species americoferus (Nabis americoferus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

In older literature, this sp. was referred to as N. ferus but that is an Old World species only recently discovered in North America.

Explanation of Names

Nabis americoferus Carayon 1961

Identification

Grey to greyish testaceous, fourth antennal segment about as long or shorter than first, head pale ventrally(1)

See (1)(2) for more information

Range

throughout NA (BC‒CA to NF‒GA)(3)(4)(5)

Canada: AB BC MB NB NF NS ON QC SK • USA: AK AZ CA CO CT GA IA ID IL IN KS MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NJ NM NY OH PA SD TN TX UT WA WI

Habitat

Grasslands, fields, weeds, agricultural fields(1)

Food

various insects(2)

Life Cycle

Overwinters as adult(2); eggs are laid on grasses and hatch in ~8 days; 5 moults(2)

Works Cited

1.	A synopsis of the damsel bugs (Heteroptera: Nabidae) of Michigan Swanson D.R. 2012. The Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 40-55.

2.	A monographic study of the hemipterous family Nabidae as it occurs in North America Harris, H.M. 1928. Entomologica Americana, 9: 1-97.

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.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

5.	Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): New records, associated data, and deletions Scudder G.G.E., Sikes D.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3852: 373-381.

Contributed by v belov on 21 February, 2011 - 12:41am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn
Last updated 24 September, 2023 - 6:09pm

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