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Brown Bug - Reduvius senilis
Copyright © 2013 Loren & Babs Padelford

Brown Bug - Reduvius senilis
Canoa Ranch I-19 Rest Area, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 27, 2013
gathering_2013. Any help with ID appreciated.

Loren and Babs Padelford
Bellevue, NE
Contributed by Loren & Babs Padelford on 6 August, 2013 - 3:46pm
Last updated 15 December, 2017 - 7:08pm

One of the endemic NA Reduvius...
This TENTATIVE identification is based on the essentially dark pronotum and large corial spots. Size would be helpful here (guessing 8-11mm) as the next most likely species (and only other real possibility) would be the larger R. vanduzeei.

Moved from True Bugs.
… drswanny, 4 September, 2013 - 12:21pm

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