The milkweed assassin bug is a member of the order Hemiptera (the true bugs); the suborder Heteroptera (with hardened elytra, or wing coverings, over membranous wings); the infraorder Cimicomorpha (a subset of the Heteroptera comprising assassin bugs, plant bugs, lace bugs, damsel bugs, minute pirate bugs, and bed bugs); the family Reduviidae (named for the genus Reduvius “hangnail or remnant,” a large, cosmopolitan family of predatory Heteroptera that includes the assassin bugs, wheel bugs, and thread-legged bugs); the subfamily Harpactorinae (the assassin bugs,.. [...]