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another assassin bug? What kind? - Neoxabea bipunctata
Copyright © 2009 Hilma Anderson

another assassin bug? What kind? - Neoxabea bipunctata
Franklin, Michigan, USA
August 3, 2009
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Contributed by Hilma Anderson on 3 August, 2009 - 1:58pm
Last updated 3 August, 2009 - 8:05pm

Moved...
...to N. bipunctata.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 3 August, 2009 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 3 August, 2009 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

Nice photo....and very useful for the guide.
Your photo has helped clarify the differences between 4th and 5th stages.

In this photo, the wings 'packets' are shorter, and do not have the pinkish color with dark spots.
4th stage


While in this photo, the wing 'packets' extend more than half-way down the top of the abdomen. Also you can see the pinkish tinge of the wings and the darker spots.
5th stage


Here is a full-adult female


So your nice photo is a 4th stage female. (You can just barely see the tip of the ovipositor).
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 3 August, 2009 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

I'm fairly certain
this is not an assassin - looks like a cricket or grasshopper of some sort.
… Ashley Bradford, 3 August, 2009 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Correct.
This is a late instar nymph of a female two-spotted tree cricket, Neoxabea bipunctata. One more molt and it will likely be an adult.
… Eric R. Eaton, 3 August, 2009 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow..
You can't get more specific than that. I thought it might be a nymph because of the wings. It's had to know what's what when they change their shapes so much (pupa, larva, instars, adults, etc.)
Thank you.
… Hilma Anderson, 3 August, 2009 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

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