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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) » Microtominae » Microtomus

Genus Microtomus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Strange Assassin nymph - Microtomus purcis Microtomus luctuosus (Stål) - Microtomus luctuosus Microtomus purcis Black and white bug - Microtomus purcis Microtomus purcis Microtomus purcis Butterfly Beetle - Microtomus purcis Mystery Insect - Microtomus purcis
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 Microtominae
Genus Microtomus
Explanation of Names
Microtomus Illiger 1807
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
Large, boldly-patterned assassin bugs. The second segment of the antenna is annulated--diagnostic for the genus, apparently(2):
Range
e. US; one sp. restricted to s. TX(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 5 June, 2006 - 5:39pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov, KenW
Last updated 31 October, 2024 - 12:49pm

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