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Genus Stenopoda

Male, Stenopoda spinulosa? - Stenopoda spinulosa - male

Assassin Bug for ID - Stenopoda spinulosa

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 Stenopodainae

Genus Stenopoda

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Stenopoda Laporte 1832

Numbers

A single described species in our area(2) and multiple Neotropical spp.(1)

Range

New World (se. Canada to South America)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Revisión del género Stenopoda Laporte, 1833 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Stenopodainae) Giacchi J.C. 1969. Physis 29: 1-26.

2.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 17 November, 2006 - 5:18pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 21 April, 2017 - 10:25am

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