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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) » Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae) » Jagged Ambush Bugs (Phymata) » Phymata americana » Phymata americana americana
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Ambush Bug - Phymata americana
Copyright © 2009 Dan Leeder

Ambush Bug - Phymata americana
Camden County, New Jersey, USA
August 26, 2009

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Ambush Bug - Phymata americana Ambush Bug - Phymata americana
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Contributed by Dan Leeder on 26 August, 2009 - 9:32pm
Last updated 30 October, 2011 - 5:10pm

Moved
Moved from Phymata americana.
… drswanny, 30 October, 2011 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Jagged Ambush Bugs.
… Chuck Entz, 1 November, 2009 - 7:19pm login or register to post comments

Phymata a. americana
This photo is a superb respresentation of one of the common northeastern Phymata as it clearly illustrates the more rounded appearance of the abdomen. I'd direct anyone trying to separate the two to this photo.
… drswanny, 1 November, 2009 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

 
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For the further identification!
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