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Pseudometapterus umbrosus

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Species of true bug

Pseudometapterus umbrosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Emesinae
Tribe: Metapterini
Genus: Pseudometapterus
Species: P. umbrosus
Binomial name
Pseudometapterus umbrosus
Blatchley, 1926

Pseudometapterus umbrosus is a species of assassin bug found in North America. It is univoltine in Illinois and overwinters as an adult. It has been reported from spider webs and plants (Heuchera parviflora) on sandstone and limestone bluffs. The vast majority of observed individuals are mictropterus, but in 2000, a macropterus (full-size winged) female was observed in Little Grand Canyon, Jackson County, Southern Illinois.

References

  1. J. D. Bradshaw & J. E. McPherson. "Discovery of macroptety in Pseudometapterus umbrosus (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)" (PDF). Florida Entomologist. 84 (4): 719–720. doi:10.2307/3496408.
Taxon identifiers
Pseudometapterus umbrosus
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