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Sinea

Sinea is a New World genus of assassin bugs, in the subfamily Harpactorinae. 13 species have been described, mostly from the Southwestern United States and Central America.

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Sinea
Sinea coronata male and female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Sinea
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species

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Sinea is a New World genus of assassin bugs, in the subfamily Harpactorinae.1 13 species have been described, mostly from the Southwestern United States and Central America.

See Sinea diadema for more detail about a representative species.

List of species

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  • Sinea anacantha Hussey, 1953
  • Sinea complexa Caudell, 1900
  • Sinea confusa Caudell, 1901
  • Sinea coronata Stål, 1862
  • Sinea defecta Stål, 1862
  • Sinea diadema (Fabricius, 1776) – spined assassin bug
  • Sinea integra Stål 1862
  • Sinea raptoria Stål, 1862
  • Sinea rileyi Montandon, 1893
  • Sinea sanguisuga Stål, 1862
  • Sinea sericea Hussey 1953
  • Sinea spinipes (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1846)
  • Sinea undulata Uhler, 1894
  • Sinea incognita Bundy
References

References

  1. Schaefer, Carl W. & Wolf, Klaus W. (2003). "Notes on the harpactocorine genus Sinea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 111 (4): 227–234. doi:10.1664/0028-7199(2003)111[0227:nothgs]2.0.co;2. JSTOR 25010472.
  2. "Sinea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.