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''Thasus gigas'' is a species of leaf-footed bug in the family Coreidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Habitat
''T. gigas'' is often found in Prosopis orAcacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...
Trees.
Behavior
''T. gigas'' is diurnal, and thus mostly active during the day.Development
Unlike insects that undergo complete metamorphosis,hemimetabolous
Hemimetabolism or hemimetaboly, also called incomplete metamorphosis and paurometabolism,McGavin, George C. ''Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp. 20. is the mode of development of certa ...
insects like ''T. gigas'' do not have a pupal stage. Instead, the nymph stage resembles the adult stage, but without wings or functional reproductive organs.
References
Further reading
*External links
* Nematopodini Insects described in 1835 Hemiptera of Central America {{Coreoidea-stub