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Reduviidae sp.
The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order of "true bugs" or Hemiptera.
Seen in a field of quite high grasses and wild flowers.
Unfortunately not, it was on the move. Just thought someone might have an idea of the ID from this angle. Difficult though!
Spotted on Dec 1, 2013
Submitted on Dec 1, 2013
9 Comments
Could be a Harpactotinae, Sycanus sp.???
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-83501254...
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/11/26/a...
http://www.reduviidae.de/systematik/harp...
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
Thanks bayucca. Yes, I agree with you. I thought it might be so, but that's the first one I've noticed in my garden in all these years, so wasn't sure.
I think it is Reduviidae, this time almost "for sure"...
Hi tbrett, sorry that's all I got! Was trying to get closer when it left...
Are there sucking mouth parts?
some kind of a longhorn beetle?
Sorry bayucca, only got 1 shot at it before it left!
Hemiptera, Heteroptera for sure, but then the tricky thing starts. Reduviidae?, looks like from the shape of the head (at least from what I can see). Next candidate Pyrrhocoridae? But for Dysdercus the white stripe is on the wrong place. Lygaeidae has no white stripe. I tend to Reduviidae or Pyrrhocoridae without being that sure...
Do you have any other pictures?