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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) » Harpactorinae » Apiomerus » crassipes species group (Apiomerus crassipes species group) » Desert Bee Assassin (Apiomerus cazieri)
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Assassin Bug - Apiomerus cazieri
Copyright © 2011 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

Assassin Bug - Apiomerus cazieri
San Pedro River Valley, SE of San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
August 9, 2011
Size: approx 15 mm
I am guessing this is Apiomerus cozier, but I am not sure; mesa in Sonoran desert with nearby Mesquite, Catclaws, Palo verdes; elev 2900 feet
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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 27 November, 2011 - 3:56pm
Last updated 9 February, 2012 - 9:30am

Moved
Moved from crassipes species group.
… drswanny, 9 February, 2012 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

did you mean A. cazieri?
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 27 November, 2011 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes
Sorry about the typo, I did mean A. cazieri; it seems the computer changes the spelling automatically and I didn't notice. Thank you for all of your invaluable help!
… Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara, 28 November, 2011 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

 
do not allow computers take control of your life ))
nice bug & nice shot, btw; Dan Swanson will no doubt tell us the sp.
… v belov, 28 November, 2011 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

Apiomeris yes,
quite common in AZ, but as I am not a Hemipteran specialist, I do not remember the AZ species.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 November, 2011 - 5:18pm login or register to post comments

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