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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 » Apiomerus » crassipes species group (Apiomerus crassipes species group) » Desert Bee Assassin (Apiomerus cazieri)
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Apiomerus - Apiomerus cazieri
Copyright © 2017 Salvador Vitanza

Apiomerus - Apiomerus cazieri
Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 24, 2017
Size: ~11 mm
Coordinates: 31.335577, -110.938235

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 25 July, 2017 - 12:53am
Last updated 26 July, 2017 - 6:42am

what didn't you like about this one?
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… v belov, 25 July, 2017 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
LOL
Nothing personal. I like this one just as much as the other...
… Salvador Vitanza, 25 July, 2017 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

 
sorry i was sorta incoherent
what i was trying to say was, why did you rule out this species? looks like a good match to me...
… v belov, 25 July, 2017 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

 
I didn't run this bug through a key
I was just "image shopping" and didn't think it was A. cazieri simply because when I photographed a mating pair in El Paso, Texas almost two years ago, both specimens appeared intensely dark red, but the one I encountered yesterday seemed a yellowish tone of red. As you know, many species have a wide range of color variation and this might be the case here. Another possibility to explain this color difference is the fact that I used different photo equipment on each occasion. If it looks like a good match to you, it definitely looks like a good match to me too :-)
… Salvador Vitanza, 25 July, 2017 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

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