''Rhiginia cruciata'', commonly known as the scarlet-bordered assassin bug or cruciate assassin bug, is a species of millipede assassin in the family
Reduviidae
The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators: most other predatory Hemiptera are aquatic. The main exampl ...
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It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, and North America.
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References
* Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). ''Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States''. Brill Academic Publishers.
Further reading
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Rhiginia cruciata''
Reduviidae
Insects described in 1832
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