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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) » Reduviinae » Reduvius » Reduvius vanduzeei
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Assassin Bug - Reduvius vanduzeei
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Assassin Bug - Reduvius vanduzeei
Kernville, Kern County, California, USA
June 27, 2008
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Contributed by tom murray on 22 July, 2008 - 8:07am
Last updated 10 November, 2008 - 1:26pm

Moved
Moved from Reduvius.
… Boris Büche, 10 November, 2008 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

Reduvius vanduzeei
Reference is Wygodzinsky & Usinger 1964 The genus Reduvius Fabricius in western North America (Reduviidae, Hemiptera, Insecta).

Profemur length:width is useful but the coloration can help narrow it down when the specimen is unavailable to examine more techinical characters. In this case, the bicolorous posterior pronotal lobe, the lighter basal cells of the membrane and the large corial spots all point to R. vanduzeei.
… drswanny, 10 November, 2008 - 10:10am login or register to post comments

Moved
After moving the image, I see what you mean by this not being R. personatus, since all the other Reduvius in the guide are that one.
… tom murray, 23 July, 2008 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

Reduvius sp.
I know! There is at least one brown species here in Arizona that looks like this (and nothing like R. personatus)! I have the name written down somewhere....Great shot, by the way.
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 July, 2008 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

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