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Species Saica elkinsi

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
Genus Saica
Species elkinsi (Saica elkinsi)
Explanation of Names
Saica elkinsi Blinn 1994
named in honor of J. C. Elkins who was the first to recognize it as undescribed... (Blinn 1994)
Numbers
One of two species in the genus found in the United States although it is possible that the second species (Saica apicalis), known from a single record in southern Texas, does not occur here.
Size
7-9 mm
Identification
may be separated from similar saicine species as follows:
S. apicalis: vermilion red; 3 cells in wing membrane
S. elkinsi: uniformly yellow-brown; 2 cells
P. florida: yellow-brown with dark median stripe; 2 cells
Range
se. US to MO