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. and 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., and 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 and 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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