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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) » Thread-legged Bugs (Emesinae) » Metapterini » Emesaya » Emesaya brevipennis

Species Emesaya brevipennis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Emesaya (probably brevipennis) - Emesaya brevipennis

Emesaya brevipennis? - Emesaya brevipennis

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 Emesinae (Thread-legged Bugs)

Tribe Metapterini

Genus Emesaya

Species brevipennis (Emesaya brevipennis)

Explanation of Names

Emesaya brevipennis (Say 1832)

Numbers

3 sspp. in our area(1)

Size

33-37 mm(2)

Identification

Covered with a silvery pubescence(2)

Range

most of the US (MA-FL to IA-TX; CA) & ON to Brazil(1)(3)(4)

Habitat

Often found outside of old buildings, in barns(2)

Season

May-Dec in so.IL

Life Cycle

Two flights of adults per year, in a population studied in Illinois. Overwinters as eggs.

Print References

Hagerty A.M., Mcpherson J.E., Bradshaw J.D. (2001) Life history and laboratory rearing of Emesaya b. brevipennis (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in Southern Illinois. Fla. Entomol. 84: 410-414 (Full text)

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.

3.	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.

4.	A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera) Pedro W. Wygodzinsky. 1966. New York : [American Museum of Natural History].

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 9 November, 2006 - 2:28pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Stephen_WV, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 January, 2020 - 4:33pm

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