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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Semiaquatic Bugs (Gerromorpha) » Water Measurers (Hydrometridae) » Hydrometra
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Walking stick - Hydrometra
Copyright © 2014 Laura Hughes

Walking stick - Hydrometra
Guernsey County, Ohio, USA
August 20, 2014
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Contributed by Laura Hughes on 11 September, 2014 - 7:33pm
Last updated 28 January, 2015 - 8:25am

Moved
Moved from Water Measurers.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 September, 2014 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Image cropped for placement.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 September, 2014 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thread-legged Bugs.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 September, 2014 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

Not a stick insect--although it certainly resembles one.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 11 September, 2014 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
I've seen thread-legged assas
I've seen thread-legged assassin bugs before but this summer I've seen three like this one and they don't have the modified front legs to grasp prey.?
… Laura Hughes, 12 September, 2014 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Good catch!
I was obviously too hasty on this one. That said, I'm not convinced that this is a Phasmid, either. With that "snout" and the legs bunched at the center of the body, it doesn't seem to match any of the images in the Guide--at least not those I've seen so far. Yet it's oddly familiar, too. Very odd. I'll have to keep looking. I'm pretty sure that someone will ID it and I'll slap my forehead for not having recognized it. In the meantime, I'm putting it back in ID Request.

Again, thanks for keeping me honest!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 September, 2014 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Hydrometrid, no?
Hydrometrid, no?
… Scott McCluen, 12 September, 2014 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Absolutely!
I knew it looked familiar! (head slap)

I can take some small consolation in having originally chosen the right order. It's not much, but it's all I've got. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 September, 2014 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Thank you! That makes sense. They were all seen close to water.
… Laura Hughes, 13 September, 2014 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

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