Stenolemus lanipes

Stenolemus lanipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Emesini
Genus: Stenolemus
Species: S. lanipes
Binomial name
Stenolemus lanipes
Wygodzinsky, 1949

Stenolemus lanipes is a species of thread-legged bug (Emesinae).

This species feeds on spiders, especially spiderlings of Parasteatoda tepidariorum.[1] Stenolemus lanipes will not feed upon other insects such as (Drosophila) placed upon a web, even to the point of starvation.[1]

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