assassin bug
wheel bug
Reduviidae latin

The insect is also known as the red-eyed assassin bug.

If the spider approaches too fast, the risk to the assassin bug is much higher."

Hence the genus is also known as assassin bugs.

Bites from South American assassin bugs allow the disease to spread.

The child was half buried in assassin bugs.

Thoughts of assassin bugs and malaria mosquitoes came to her unbidden.

They form a subgroup within the assassin bugs.

Some assassin bug subfamilies are adapted to hunting certain types of prey.

The assassin bugs, distributed throughout Australia, are often found on tree trunks, in both suburban and bush areas.

In fact it was an assassin bug.

However, spiders can be a formidable opponent for the assassin bug if they move quickly across the web to the potential predator.

One difference between the two relationships, however, is that the assassin bugs do not take any food source from the plant like the ants do.

She had been dreaming about assassin bugs.

Some assassin bug species are bloodsucking parasites of mammals, even feed on humans.

The assassin bug also cohabitates the plant peacefully with the ants.

Are you familiar with the assassin bug?"

Further research showed that the mimicry does not protect the fruit fly against other predators, such as lizards and assassin bugs.

Saicella is a genus of assassin bugs endemic to Hawaii.

Many assassin bugs and crab spiders hide in flowers to capture unwary bees.

They've hired an assassin bug!

The other involved "stalking" spiders, where the assassin bug slowly approaches the unsuspecting victim until within striking range.

The assassin bug appeared in the original first edition Fiend Folio (1981).

Assassin Bugs feed on the larvae.

Cavernicola is a genus of assassin bugs in the family Reduviidae.

Stenolemus alikakay is a species of assassin bug, found in Taiwan.

The reproductive cycle of the wheel bug initiates in autumn.

Wheel bugs are common in eastern North America, although many people in the region have never seen them.

The wheel bug has characteristic dorsal armor, shaped like a wheel or cog.

Because most of their prey are pests, wheel bugs are considered beneficial insects, although they can inflict a painful bite if handled carelessly.

The bite of a wheel bug is painful and may take months to heal (sometimes leaving a small scar), so caution is highly advised when handling them.

When a pair of wheel bugs encounter each other and mate, the female will lay 40-200 small, brown, cylindrical eggs on a tree twig, and eventually die.

Western conifer seed bugs are somewhat similar in appearance to the wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) and other Reduviidae (assassin bugs).

This tribe contains the only genera of the reduviidae with exaggerated modifications of the pronotum, such as the wheel bug (arilus) and the strongly raised and divided posterior pronotal lobe in Ulpius Stål, 1865.

The wheel bug is also noted to be very vicious in the wild, and cannibalistic behaviors between them have been noted; for example, nymphs may prey on one another and the female may feed on the male after mating is concluded.

A leaf beetle, whose muscles and adhesive feet resist the pull of weights equivalent (in human terms, and in Eisner's graphic phrase) to "7.5 automobiles (Subaru Legacy station wagons, 1998 model)," meets its Waterloo in the shape of a wheel bug that simply injects it with a muscle relaxant.

Some research on the nature of the venom from certain Reduviidae is under way.

Kirby believed that the species belonged in the family Reduviidae.

He studied several groups of insects in detail, but is known, especially, for his work on Reduviidae family.

Cavernicola is a genus of assassin bugs in the family Reduviidae.

The legs of some Reduviidae have areas covered in tiny hairs that aid in holding onto their prey while they feed.

First stage nymphs mimic bugs of the family Reduviidae, which have a powerful bite and are foul tasting.

"The family is Reduviidae.

Apronius is a genus within the Stenopodainae subfamily of the reduviidae.

Platymeris is a genus of assassin bug (reduviidae).

Assassin bugs (Reduviidae)

Agriocleptus is a small genus of Assassin Bugs belonging to the family Reduviidae.

Predatory Reduviidae use the long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey, which are then sucked out.

They also visit Asilidae, Reduviidae, and even Mantodea.

Corsairs (Peiratinae) are a subfamily of assassin bugs (Reduviidae).

These include bedbugs and the kissing bugs of the family Reduviidae, which can transmit potentially deadly Trypanosoma infections.

In his 1990 work of the Reduviidae of the world, Moldonado doubted the Schidium placement.

Rhynocoris rubricus is a species belonging to the family Reduviidae, subfamily Harpactorinae.

The masked hunter (Reduvius personatus) is an insect, belonging to the assassin bug (Reduviidae) family.

Based on cladistic analyses, however, ambush bugs (Phymatinae) are part of the family Reduviidae (assassin bugs).

Sinea diadema is a species of assassin bug family (Reduviidae), in the subfamily Harpactorinae.

(Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae).

Melanolestes is a Nearctic and Neotropical genus of assassin bugs (Reduviidae).

Various species of the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera, in the family Reduviidae feed largely or exclusively on ants.

Macrocephalini is a tribe of ambush bugs, which are a subfamily (Phymatinae) of the assassin bug family (Reduviidae).

Maldonado-Capriles, Jenaro (1990) "Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World".