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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 coloradensis
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Phymata sp. - Phymata americana
Copyright © 2011 Marcel Such

Phymata sp. - Phymata americana
Lyons, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
September 19, 2011
Size: Estimated ~15mm
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Contributed by Marcel Such on 19 September, 2011 - 8:36pm
Last updated 30 October, 2011 - 5:21pm

Moved
Moved from Jagged Ambush Bugs.
… drswanny, 30 October, 2011 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Phymata
Why is this not P. pennsylvanica? The shape of the rear of the bug (the tegmites in combo) is unlike (narrower) most other pics of P.a. americana and is much like pennsylvanica. Not certain how you'd tell the two apart from just this view... though I'd love to know
… Steven Mlodinow, 7 April, 2016 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 19 September, 2011 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Ambush bug
Looks like Phymata to me, but I don't know my western bugs, so better wait for an expert,
… Michael Battenberg, 19 September, 2011 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

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