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Conenose or Assassin? - Triatoma sanguisuga - female
Copyright © 2008 bquimps

Conenose or Assassin? - Triatoma sanguisuga - Female
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA
Size: 2 cm
Is this a bloodsucking conenose (Triatoma sanguisuga), a bee assassin (Apiomerus crassipes), or something else? The biology teacher thinks one thing, an entomologist thinks another. A student brought it in to mount in his insect collection, so if you need more pictures I can take them.
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Contributed by bquimps on 2 September, 2008 - 5:27pm
Last updated 13 June, 2017 - 4:20am

Range of Triatoma species in the US
check out this link:
http://www.emporia.edu/ksn/v57n2-spring2011/

A nice piece from Emporia State in Kansas on species distribution in the US.
… Nathan Riggs, 13 November, 2015 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

Eastern Conenose
see here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/5164
… margarethe brummermann, 2 September, 2008 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Identification of triatoma vs apiomerus
Perhaps it would be helpful to list some of the identifying marks of a conenose vs a bee asassin or vice versa. I know I would appreciate it. Certainly I can look at a triatoma 90% of the time and identify it correctly .... but there are several species of both .. and it would be great if someone could list an identifying feature that would help make a determination.
… Brian Kinn, 31 October, 2008 - 12:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Triatoma sanguisuga common to Indiana?
Thanks for the identification. Does BugGuide or another site tell the habitat range for particular insects? The biology teacher is still amazed that he hasn't seen one of these in student collections in his ~30 yrs of teaching.
… bquimps, 3 September, 2008 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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