Apiomerus crassipes

(Fabricius, 1803) · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Reduviidae/Apiomerus

At a glance

Occurrence records1 589

Data sources5

Biological traits0

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections2

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Apiomerus crassipes's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 589 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 589 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

01Narrative

The bee assassin (Apiomerus crassipes) is an insect that feeds on bees and ants.Handbook of biological control: principles and applications of biological control |T. S. Bellows |Academic Press It is found throughout North America. Bee assassins can fly, and stalk flowering plants that are visited by bees, flies, and other pollinating insects. Bee assassins are usually dark in color with yellow or red markings on the sides of the abdomen, and are about 3/4 in long. The bee assassins' fore tibiae are coated with a sticky resin to aid in prey capture.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding5 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Apiomerus crassipes has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

BINs2

Marker genes2

eDNA detections2

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-3P★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 589 records

Wild obs. + sensor1 313

Museum / vouchered276

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO4 732 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy78% within 1 km

≤100 m 616≤1 km 229≤10 km 64>10 km 170

1 079 georeferenced · 234 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor1 313

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy8% within 1 km

≤1 km 4≤10 km 41>10 km 3

48 georeferenced · 228 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence276

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions7 of 12 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
CUlocation not on record	89
Mississippi State, US	88
Champaign, US	27
Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record	18
College Station, US	15
Montgomery, US	13
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	8
University of Central Floridalocation not on record	7
San Francisco, US	5
North Carolina State University Insect Museumlocation not on record	4
Mexico City, MX	1
Lubbock, US	1

12 institutions · 276 of 276 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Apiomerus crassipes was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found2

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Apiomerus crassipes

At a glance

Sources5 archives

At a glance

Record type1 589 records

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions7 of 12 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Record type1 589 records