Spiny Assassin Bug
Sinea spinipes (Herrich-schaeffer, 1846)
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Sinea spinipes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Genus: Sinea
Species:
S. spinipes
Binomial name
Sinea spinipes
(Herrich-Schaeffer, 1846)
Sinea spinipes, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia.

Sinea spinipes is a species of assassin bug, family (Reduviidae), in the subfamily Harpactorinae.[1] It is native to North America and found in the midwest along roadsides, forest edges, and open fields with scattered trees.[2]

In southern Illinois S. spinipes is univoltine (has only one brood per year).[2]

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  1. ^ Froeschner, Richard C. (1988). "Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807. The assassin bugs". In Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C. (eds.). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill. pp. 616–651, page 636. ISBN 978-0-916846-44-2.
  2. ^ a b Shurtz, Rachel A. & McPherson, J. E. (2005). "Life History and Laboratory Rearing of Sinea spinipes (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with Descriptions of Immature Stages". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 98 (1): 18–36. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0018:lhalro]2.0.co;2.


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