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Phymata americana feed on a wide variety of prey, most often including small bees, moths, and flies. [8] [9] As their common name suggests, P. americana are sit-and-wait ambush predators, resting on flower heads where they grab visiting insects with large raptorial foreleg weapons.
Ambush bugs are insects in the order Hemiptera, or "true bugs". They occupy the family Reduviidae, and form the subfamily Phymatinae. This subfamily was often given family-level status and this classification is still used in some textbooks. Based on cladistic analyses, however, ambush bugs (Phymatinae) are a type of assassin bug .
Terrestrial ecoregions of the Nearctic realm — the Nearctic realm contains the temperate climate ecoregions of the Americas, limited to North America from the Arctic through central Mexico. Location map of Nearctic realm .
Coprophagous pyralid moth species, called sloth moths, such as Bradipodicola hahneli and Cryptoses choloepi, are unusual in that they are exclusively found inhabiting the fur of sloths, mammals found in Central and South America. [4] [5] Two species of Tinea moths have been recorded as feeding on horny tissue and have been bred from the horns ...
The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm include most of coastal Mexico, southern Mexico, southern Florida, coastal central Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean islands. Together with South America , these regions are part of the Neotropical realm .
Nearctic: 22.9 8.8 Greenland and most of North America. Afrotropic: 22.1 8.5 Trans-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. Neotropic: 19.0 7.3 South America, Central America, the Caribbean, South Florida and the Falkland Islands. Australasia: 7.6 2.9 Australia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, Maluku Islands and the ...
In contrast, the largest surviving native North American mammal, the wood bison, can exceed 900 kg (2,000 lb), and the largest surviving Nearctic migrant to South America, Baird's tapir, can reach 400 kg (880 lb). Paleo-Indians and †Glyptodon Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii, the largest surviving Nearctic migrant to South America
This is a list of freshwater ecoregions in Latin America and the Caribbean, as identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF divides the Earth's land surface into ecoregions, defined as "large area[s] of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species". Ecoregions are grouped into complexes and ...