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Hyalymenus tarsatus
Males having slightly thicker legs than the females. Colors of the immatures are highly variable and come in red, black, gray, tan, brown and all kinds of combinations. These have a pretty cool transformation is you don't know about them already.
Their range is from CA-AZ, TX / s. to Brazil, plus(?) LA and AL per pix posted here. Year round in Texas. They have often been seen feeding on a variety of plants, especially euphorbias and seed pods of legumes and milkweeds.
Found this on my Pride of Barbados and it has done a lot of damage to it. I'm stubborn, I'll just plant another, if needed.
Spotted on Aug 27, 2012
Submitted on Aug 28, 2012
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Thank you, JuanDi! I had a feeling it was something else. I found one of these under my carport on a chair durring the rain a couple of weeks ago too. Anyway... looking into it now ")
This is an Ant mimicking bug (Alydidae family)