- Florida Nature: Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)
See images of Flordia Arilus cristatus (wheel bug) and Zelus longipes (assassin bug) as well as pictures of assassin bugs yet to be identified.
www.floridanature.org/family.asp?family=Reduviidae
- Wheel Bug (Arilus cristatus)
Fact sheet for the wheel bug, a moderately common, widely distributed, beneficial assassin bug that preys on man's pest insects.
edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/IN/IN24300.pdf#search='Reduviidae'
- Literature-Based Key to Reduviidae (Heteroptera) of Florida
(PDF)
Provides dichotomous keys to species of assassin bugs and thread-legged bugs listed as occurring in Florida. Includes illustrations highlighting the species' disguising characteristics.
entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/choate/Florida_reduviidae.pdf
- BugGuide.Net: Assassin Bugs
Provides color photos of, and classification information about, members of Family Reduviidae commonly know as assassin bugs.
bugguide.net/node/view/166
- Assassin Bugs & Ambush Bugs of Kentucky
Photographic guide from the University of Kentucky Entomology to the assassin and ambush bugs commonly found in the state.
www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/insects/bugs/assassin/assassin.htm
- Assassin Bugs - Family Reduviidae
Find out about assassin bugs, the predators that prey on all small animal such as snails, insects including caterpillars, spiders, and other arthropods.
www.geocities.com/brisbane_bugs/Reduviidae.htm
- Amazing Insects: Assassin Bug
Learn about assassin bugs, bugs that have a powerful, curved rostrum, or beak, that they use to pierce and suck out the tissues of their prey.
www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/assassin.html
- Reduviidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha)
Includes photographs of, and a list of literature dedicated to, the assassin bug species found within the state of Illinois.
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/reduviidae/Reduviidae.html
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