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This large, brown, adult Assassin
a very small, spiky, mantis like insect. 5-8 millimeters large.
Well-named! Scary-looking little critter. Still very small, though.
(I was able to identify the species only after the nymphs emerged.)
A beautiful bug. Large (around 1.5 cm / ...
Yellow and brown bug with black spotted ...
on its tip and some parts of antennae. A
both margins; the beak is 3-segmented.
The legs of the
tubercles, separating it from a similar looking species, S. diadema. Its front ...
head black. Mouthparts short, thick and curved. Body up to 1 cm long. Some ...
the side: "A large, stout, elongate-oval, reddish to yellowish
Adults are orange and boldly striped, as are some other juvenile
While placing my eye up to the viewfinder of my camera, I noticed a large ...
Reduvidae; Harpactorinae, Reuter 1887. I think that the