Sinea spinipes

Sinea spinipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Harpactorinae
Genus:	Sinea
Species:	S. spinipes
Binomial name
	Sinea spinipes; Herrich-Schaeffer, 1846

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]

Assassin Bug - Sinea spinipes, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia.

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

References

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.
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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[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.

[Shurtz-2] 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.