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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae) » Jagged Ambush Bugs (Phymata) » pennsylvanica or americana (Phymata pennsylvanica or americana)
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Jagged Ambush Bug - Phymata - male
Copyright © 2009 Charles Wilder

Jagged Ambush Bug - Phymata - Male
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Foothills Parkway Central, Blount County, Tennessee, USA
June 14, 2008
Found on Common Elderberry - Sambucus canadensis.
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Contributed by Charles Wilder on 13 March, 2009 - 4:59pm
Last updated 10 May, 2021 - 9:38pm

Moved
Moved from Jagged Ambush Bugs.
… v belov, 10 May, 2021 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

The connexival angles...
make me think Phymata fasciata but I'm not 100% sure. I've also changed this comment four times in the last 20 minutes which seems to indicate that it should probably stay at genus for now. I don't think the species is really recorded from the interior but I'm not sure that is doesn't occur there.
… drswanny, 1 November, 2009 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

yes; Phymata (?pennsylvanica)
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… v belov, 13 March, 2009 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

It is a...
Jagged Ambush Bug (Phymata)
I am not sure of the exact species.




I have nop idea about the other insect on the flower :)
… Ron M., 13 March, 2009 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, I moved the photo to
Thanks, I moved the photo to Jagged Ambush Bug (Phymata). The other bug is kinda small - www.GSMHike.org.
… Charles Wilder, 15 March, 2009 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

 
The other bug is Anthrenus (?fuscus)
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… v belov, 15 March, 2009 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

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