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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Damsel Bugs (Nabidae) » Nabinae » Nabini » Nabis » subgenus Reduviolus (Nabis subgenus Reduviolus) » Nabis alternatus
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Damsel bug? - Nabis alternatus
Copyright © 2010 R. Berg

Damsel bug? - Nabis alternatus
Alameda County, California, USA
June 3, 2010
Size: 6.3 mm bl
Found in a spider web and released. Possibly the same as , Nabis, found two days earlier.
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Contributed by R. Berg on 3 June, 2010 - 10:37pm
Last updated 8 August, 2012 - 9:13pm

Nabis (Reduviolus) alternatus
According to Benedict & Cothran (1975), N. alternatus has two isolated yellow spots on the dark scutellum, whereas the spots prolong posteriorly and become confluent at the apex in N. americoferus. This identification of this image is certainly not 100% but it is a good representation of one of the potential (and rare) visual cues in a complicated genus.

Moved from Nabis.
… drswanny, 8 August, 2012 - 9:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Damsel Bugs.
… v belov, 20 June, 2010 - 4:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Yes, Nabidae.
… Brad Barnd, 4 June, 2010 - 12:25am login or register to post comments

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