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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) » Harpactorinae » Harpactorini » Zelus » Leafhopper Assassin Bug (Zelus renardii)
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Insect on Rose Bush - Zelus renardii
Copyright © 2009 Anna_

Insect on Rose Bush - Zelus renardii
Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
August 23, 2009
Found him sitting on a rose bush twig 3/32 of and inch wide (the twig)
The insect was apx 2/3 of an inch long. Also, is this somewhere between
nymph and adult? I just noticed he is missing a large section of his
most forward left leg, good thing they have many more legs!
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Contributed by Anna_ on 30 August, 2009 - 3:00pm
Last updated 26 March, 2010 - 9:55am

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I added for you
… John R. Maxwell, 31 August, 2009 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request.
… margarethe brummermann, 30 August, 2009 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

Zelus sp.
It's another assassin, an adult. There is really no in-between nymph and adult, but there are several instars of nymphs, that is it molts several times while still being a nymph (all instars looking similar but each one bigger than the last one), until finally it emerges as a fully winged, sexually mature adult. The wings are usually the best indicator, except in some female grasshoppers and such, that never develop functional wings.
… margarethe brummermann, 30 August, 2009 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Assassin Bug
Thank you for all that information
… Anna_, 30 August, 2009 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

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