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Melanolestes picipes - female
Copyright © 2010 Barbara Durant

Melanolestes picipes - Female
Lusby, MD, Southern Maryland County, Maryland, USA
October 8, 2010
Size: 1 inch
Gives a nasty sting and I've found some website report that it may carry Chagas Disease. Currently in research 11/25/2010

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Melanolestes picipes - female Melanolestes picipes Melanolestes picipes
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Contributed by Barbara Durant on 25 November, 2010 - 10:42am
Last updated 7 March, 2018 - 12:26pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Adult female specimen.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 November, 2010 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

I suspect
Melanolestes picipes (Black Corsair)


Please crop your images close to "just the bug" Only you and the editors can see your full-size images. The large border adds no value and prevents others from viewing or possibly even IDing your images.
… John R. Maxwell, 25 November, 2010 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

 
Max is right, this is Melanolestes picipes
only members of another subfamily, the Triatominae, are known to carry and transmit the agents of Chagas, but not in this country
… v belov, 25 November, 2010 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks v belov and Max
Is it indigenous to the Eastern Shore and is it a fairly new species?
… Barbara Durant, 25 November, 2010 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

 
native & rather common
thanks for cropping the pix; look fine now
… v belov, 25 November, 2010 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Info here
http://bugguide.net/node/view/7332
… John R. Maxwell, 25 November, 2010 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

 
cropping images
How do I remove them? I can't seem to find this
… Barbara Durant, 25 November, 2010 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
You can
click "edit", browse to a cropped image, and update these in place.
… John R. Maxwell, 25 November, 2010 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

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