Emesaya brevipennis

Emesaya brevipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: insecta
Order: hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Emesaya
Species: E. brevipennis
Binomial name
Emesaya brevipennis
Say

Emesaya brevipennis is a New World species of assassin bug in the subfamily Emesinae. There are three subspecies, all of which occur in North America north of Mexico.[1]

The subspecies Emesaya b. brevipennis is the most widely distributed and is reported to be bivoltine in Southern Illinois.[2] This subspecies has 5 instars.[2]

E. brevipennis has been reported to rob spiders of their prey[3] and to prey upon spiders.[4] The species also will prey upon conspecifics, both in the larval and adult stage.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Froeschner, Richard C. (1988). "Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807. The assassin bugs". In Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill. pp. 616–651. ISBN 978-0-916846-44-2.
  2. 1 2 Hagerty, A.M.; McPherson, J.E. & Bradshaw, J.D. "Life history and laboratory rearing of Emesaya B. Brevipennis" (PDF). Florida Entomologist: 84(3) September 2001.
  3. ↑ Howard, L. O. 1901. The insect book. Doubleday. Page and Co. New York.
  4. ↑ Smith. J. B. 1910. A report of the insects of New Jersey-Hemiptera. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum, p. 131-170.
  5. ↑ Harley P. Brown; David W. Lollis (1962). "Observations on the Life History and Behavior of the Thread-Legged Bug Emesaya b. brevipennis (Say), (Hemiptera: Ploiariidae)" (PDF). Proc. of the Okla. Acad. of Sci.
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