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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Broad-headed Bugs (Alydidae) » Not yet identified nymphs
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Ant mimic
Copyright © 2014 Tim Turner

Ant mimic
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio, USA
June 7, 2014
Photographed at the Creekside Reserve.

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Contributed by Tim Turner on 11 June, 2014 - 10:01am
Last updated 11 June, 2014 - 8:03pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 11 June, 2014 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

Reminds me of...
a Cyrtophorus I saw once. Take a look HERE... ( of course, I could be waay off base!)
… Michael Battenberg, 11 June, 2014 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

 
way off...LOL
this is actually one of the ant-mimic hemipterans (maybe Miridae, I cant remember)
… Blaine Mathison, 11 June, 2014 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

 
Given your clue
and poking through the Guide, this looks a lot like certain nymphs in Family Alydidae - Broad-headed Bugs. Especially this one . I have photographed Alydus eurinus in my town before, so perhaps that is it? Or something similar ... thanks, Blaine.
… Tim Turner, 11 June, 2014 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

 
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I agree.
… Drew Sheaffer, 11 June, 2014 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

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