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Assassin Bug - Apiomerus crassipes
Copyright © 2004 Troy Bartlett

Assassin Bug - Apiomerus crassipes
Elachee Nature Center, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, USA
June 21, 2003
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Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:46pm
Last updated 28 June, 2004 - 2:15pm

This is Apiomerus, probably A. crassipes
See Slater, How to Know the True Bugs (Wm. C. Brown, 1978), figure 220, page 122. Arnett, American Insects, 2nd ed., p. 265 lists 9 spp in genus, no illustrations. Swan and Papp, The Common Insects of North America (Harper and Row, 1972), fig. 107, p. 122, call it "Bee Assassin". Web references:
… Cotinis, 10 March, 2004 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Species probably Apiomerus crassipes (NCSU listings)
OK, for what this is worth:
NCSU Entomology Collection has just one species for NC in collection, A. crassipes, with over 100 pinned--quite common. Other two spp. listed in that genus only have a couple of specimens and not from NC.

Not infallible, but probable.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
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