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Ambush Bug - Phymata - Phymata fasciata
Copyright © 2004 Alan Chin-Lee

Ambush Bug - Phymata - Phymata fasciata
Gainesville, Florida, USA
This little creature was incidentally on a flower that I picked to stage a shot with a moth. It remained there all day until I discovered it lazily moving around. Their strategy is to perch on flowers until small insects like flies, moths, thrips, etc., venture to feed, grabbing their prey like praying mantids. If anyone knows the species, please let me know. Thanks.
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Contributed by Alan Chin-Lee on 10 October, 2004 - 8:18pm
Last updated 2 May, 2007 - 5:33am

Moved
Moved from Ambush Bugs.
… Boris Büche, 2 May, 2007 - 5:33am login or register to post comments

using the source named below,
this one keys out to P.fasciata.
… Boris Büche, 2 May, 2007 - 5:33am login or register to post comments

Species hard to determine in Phymata, helpful link
I've had no luck with these. There's some long-standing taxonomic confusion as well. There's a big reference, catalogue of the Hemiptera of the United States and Canada, and I remember it does have a list of the species, but no key. It tries to straighten out some names, I remember, based on priority.

There is a key to Florida species published as a pdf:
Florida adult Phymatidae (Ambush bugs). I don't know how useful it will be.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 11 October, 2004 - 6:59am login or register to post comments

Ambush Bug
Family, Phymatidae
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 10 October, 2004 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

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