Thread-legged Bug

Description:

Brown insect with striped legs. The front legs are held up like a Mantis. The wings are translucent brown. The video shows it walking up the wall and light looking for prey. "Unlike walking-sticks and some dipterans they mimic, the Emesinae walk on the rear four legs -- the front legs are modified for grasping prey" - BugGuide

Habitat:

Under the porch light at night in the backyard. Habitats include "Barns, cellars and old buildings; beneath loose bark, in tufts of grass or brush piles; largely nocturnal, some live in spider webs" - BugGuide

Notes:

"They are conspicuously different from the other reduviids by their very slender body form. They are stalking, predaceous insects that can be collected on palm fronds, cliffs, spider webbing, or near lights at night (many can be collected by blacklight). They walk on their mid and hind legs; the front pair is raptorial." - Wikipedia