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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) » Corsairs (Peiratinae) » Melanolestes

Genus Melanolestes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Works Cited
Unknown black/red insect - Melanolestes picipes - female Melanolestes picipes Black Corsair - Melanolestes picipes Reduviidae ?? - Melanolestes picipes Black and red beetle - Melanolestes picipes - female Hemipteran - Melanolestes picipes Plant bug ? - Melanolestes picipes Brown/red assassin bug - Melanolestes picipes
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 Peiratinae (Corsairs)
Genus Melanolestes
Explanation of Names
Melanolestes Stål 1866
'black thief'
Numbers
2 spp. in our area
Size
12-20 mm(1)
Range
M. picipes (=abdominalis) QC-FL to MN-SD-UT-CA to Brazil(1);
M. morio is noted from FL(2)
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic status of Melanolestes picipes and M. abdominalis (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
McPherson J.E., Keffer S.L., Taylor S.J. 1992. Fla. Entomol. 74: 396-403.
2.A Literature-based Key to REDUVIIDAE (Heteroptera) of Florida
Contributed by Cotinis on 22 September, 2004 - 11:45pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 31 January, 2023 - 2:54pm

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