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- Title
Predation on the Scorpion Centruroides hentzi (Banks) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) by the Assassin Bug Microtomus purcis (Drury) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae).
- Authors
Stevenson, Dirk J.; Stohlgren, Kevin M.
- Abstract
The diverse assemblage of invertebrates associated with Pinus (pine) snags in Florida and the Coastal Plain of Georgia include the large, widely distributed assassin bug, Microtomus purcis, and the scorpion Centruroides hentzi which is restricted to this region. We describe two instances of predation by M. purcis on C. hentzi in Georgia. These represent the first documented observations of predation on a scorpion species by an assassin bug.
- Subjects
INVERTEBRATES; PINE; ASSASSIN bugs; CENTRUROIDES; SCORPIONS
- Publication
Southeastern Naturalist, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 1, pN1
- ISSN
1528-7092
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1656/058.014.0101