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Photo#110374
Eastern toe biter, deceased, side - Benacus griseus
Copyright © 2007 Elissa Malcohn

Eastern toe biter, deceased, side - Benacus griseus
Beverly Hills, Citrus County, Florida, USA
Size: 60-65 mm
Mary found this corpse outside our local supermarket several years ago and has kept it in an large, emptied parsley bottle ever since. She marked the bottle, "Nov.-Dec. 2003." We finally remembered to try for an ID. I first mis-identified this as Lethocerus americanus, then realized the eye shape and the "fur" around the eye makes this griseus. Is missing front legs and some other bits.

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Eastern toe biter, deceased, with ruler - Benacus griseus Eastern toe biter, deceased, head shot front - Benacus griseus Eastern toe biter, deceased, head shot side - Benacus griseus Eastern toe biter, deceased, side - Benacus griseus Eastern toe biter, deceased, bottom - Benacus griseus
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Contributed by Elissa Malcohn on 16 May, 2007 - 2:24pm

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