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SoI: Apiomerus crassipes - Bee assassin (CA native)

 
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:05 pm    Post subject: SoI: Apiomerus crassipes - Bee assassin (CA native) Reply with quote

Apiomerus crassipes - Bee assassin


A medium-large assassin but that is similar in bodyshape to the hobby standard Platymeris species.  Adults are around 15 to *maybe* 20mm in body length.


http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Apiomerus.htm




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Kingdom Animalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    Phylum Arthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artr��e  
       Subphylum Hexapoda  -- hexapods  
          Class Insecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             Subclass Pterygota  -- insects ail鳬 winged insects  
                Infraclass Neoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
                   Order Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- hemipterans, true bugs  
                      Suborder Heteroptera Latreille, 1810 -- barbeiro, maria fedida, percevejo, true bugs  
                         Infraorder Cimicomorpha  -- thaumastocorid bugs  
                            Superfamily Reduvoidea    
                               Family Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 -- assassin bugs, r餵ves  
                                  Subfamily Apiomerinae Amyot and Serville, 1843    
                                     Genus Apiomerus Hahn, 1831    
                                        Species Apiomerus crassipes (Fabricius, 1803)
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/Singl...topic=TSN&search_value=107206
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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HABITS & HABITATS




Adults in Orange County fly in May.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/59813/bgimage









REPRODUCTION
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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RANGE




Riley Wilderness Park, Coto de Caza, Orange County, CA. 7-26-06
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Apiomerus.htm
Caspers Wilderness Park, Orange County, California, USA
http://bugguide.net/node/view/59813/bgimage
Orange County, California, USA
http://bugguide.net/node/view/54177/bgimage

Picchetti Ranch OSP, Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California, USA
http://bugguide.net/node/view/180698/bgpage

Mt Diablo State Park, California, USA
http://bugguide.net/node/view/63130/bgimage
Pine Canyon, Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County, California, USA
http://bugguide.net/node/view/163479/bgimage




GA http://bugguide.net/node/view/59304/bgpage
WI http://bugguide.net/node/view/124291/bgpage
OK http://bugguide.net/node/view/192452/bgpage
SC http://bugguide.net/node/view/71652/bgimage
AK http://bugguide.net/node/view/64070/bgimage
MO http://bugguide.net/node/view/60885/bgimage
NC http://bugguide.net/node/view/48463/bgimage
MS http://bugguide.net/node/view/14102/bgimage
VA http://bugguide.net/node/view/4558/bgimage
OH http://content.denison.edu/cdm4/i...PTR=1050&CISOBOX=1&REC=11
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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PICS




**** http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/Apiomerus.htm

**.5 http://content.denison.edu/cdm4/i...PTR=1050&CISOBOX=1&REC=11
**.5 http://bugguide.net/node/view/195253/bgpage (high red adult)


** http://www.insectimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5369336





VIDS

*.5 http://naturebytesvideo.com/bytes_A-B/bee_assassin_bug.html (i can't tell if it is choppy cuz my comp sucks or cuz it is a free sample)
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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LINKS


*** http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.ed...eneficial-08_bee_assassin_bug.htm



** http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/A/Apiomerus_crassipes.asp

*.5 http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/4014/


* http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich...fication/Apiomerus_crassipes.html
* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20...us+crassipes&guide=Reduviidae
* http://www.invasive.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=21115
* http://app.isis.org/abstracts/Abs12283.asp







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Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States    
 Page(s): xix + 958    
 Publisher: E. J. Brill    
 Publication Place: New York, New York, USA    
 ISBN/ISSN: 0-916846-44-X  
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/Singl...topic=TSN&search_value=107206
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

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