Spotting

I agree Latimeria - the antennae seem distinctive. Removed - and thanks for all the help, everyone!

I think I'd identified the bug, a plant bug in the genus Neurocolpus. BugGuide lists the key features as "flattened hairs on the thickened antennomere 1 and tufts of black bristlelike setae on the pronotal disc." You can see both characteristics on this specimen, and the range matches up. It would be easier to say for sure with a dorsal view, but that's okay.

Going from my personal judgement, I'm pretty sure I'm at least close to the ID. I haven't seen any species of assassin bugs with those thickened antennae (if you have though, I would love to see some examples for my own reference), and the shape of the head doesn't look quite right to me.

Well, I'm changing my mind. It looks like a Plant Bug. The Clouded plant bug looks very similar although I don't know if they're found in Ohio. http://bugguide.net/node/view/96489/bgpa...

anyway, if you are not convinced and you are the mission creator, you can take the desition of removing this picture

well, is frequently hard to make a profesional identification with a couple of pictures, but in my opinion, this is an assassin bug

I'm not sure about that Juan: the first segment of the antennae are thick, which I haven't seen in the assassin bugs, and the head isn't as constricted as in the assassin bugs. I'll do some more research and see if I can figure it out.

I agree, you can see the rostrum in the first image.

mmm, this actually looks like an Assassin bug

Hey Steffi, could you remove this from the assassin bug mission? I appreciate you adding it and it's a great shot, but the focus of the mission is solely on the Reduviidae. Maybe there should be another mission for all bugs in the order Hemiptera, however...

oh ok thanks! Most assassin bug nyphs that I've seen are really brightly colored - this is fairly "tame" by comparison.

Nop, its actually an Hemipteran. Probably an Assassin bug