Sinea spinipes

Sinea spinipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Harpactorinae
Genus: Sinea
Species: S. spinipes
Binomial name
Sinea spinipes
Herrich-Schaeffer, 1846


Sinea spinipes is a species of assassin bug, family (Reduviidae), in the subfamily Harpactorinae.[1] It is native to North America and found in the midwest along roadsides, forest edges, and open fields with scattered trees.[2]

In southern Illinois S. spinipes is univoltine (has only one brood per year).[2]

References

  1. Froeschner, Richard C. (1988). "Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807. The assassin bugs". In Henry, Thomas J. and Froeschner, Richard C. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill. pp. 616651, page 636. ISBN 978-0-916846-44-2.
  2. 1 2 Shurtz, Rachel A. and McPherson, J. E. (2005). "Life History and Laboratory Rearing of Sinea spinipes (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with Descriptions of Immature Stages". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98 (1): 1836. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0018:lhalro]2.0.co;2.


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