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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 » Hoplistoscelis » Hoplistoscelis pallescens
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Damsel Bug? - Hoplistoscelis pallescens
Copyright © 2010 Ashley Bradford

Damsel Bug? - Hoplistoscelis pallescens
Great Falls Park, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
September 23, 2010
I think this is a damsel bug nymph but am fairly new to them so can't be sure. It looks sort of like one I had previously identified as Hoplistoscelis sordidus, and I see no records for them in MD so I thought I should add it in case.

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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 1 October, 2010 - 5:40pm
Last updated 20 February, 2011 - 10:20pm

Moved
Moved from Damsel Bugs.
… v belov, 20 February, 2011 - 10:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Bugs.
… drswanny, 5 October, 2010 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

Nabidae looks right to me.
I wouldn't venture to guess the species, but it certainly resembles this one (unidentified beyond family):

… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 October, 2010 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

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