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Ambush bug

Phymatinae

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Description:

About 1 and a half cm long , flew onto the balcony this morning and landed on a wooden chair. Good camoflage, black tipped antenne. crawled around very slowly!

1 Species ID Suggestions

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Latimeria
Latimeria 13 years ago
Ambush bug
Phymatinae Phymatinae


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2 Comments

lindistar
lindistar 13 years ago

Thanks, never heard of them before. Found another one inside yesterday(could have been the same one..!)

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Latimeria
Latimeria 13 years ago

Could be a type of ambush bug, in the assassin bug family.

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lindistar
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lindistar

Algarve, Portugal

Spotted on Mar 30, 2011
Submitted on Mar 30, 2011

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