Leistarches serripes

Mantis assassin bug at Acton, ACT

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Identification history

	Leistarches serripes	16 Mar 2019	KimPullen
	Unidentified	14 Mar 2019	jb2602

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OK Kim, what's going on here?

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KimPullen wrote:

17 Mar 2019

This is an assassin bug of the subfamily Emesinae - they have mantis-like raptorial front legs. It looks the same as that pictured at http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/123994.

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

17 Mar 2019

A great photo from ALA:
https://images.ala.org.au/image/viewer?imageId=ea300234-8416-493a-bc5e-e132fda8ab1e

jb2602 wrote:

18 Mar 2019

Extraordinary, the best I could come with was that the antennae were the front legs and it was eating something.

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Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
10 Mar 2019 10:11 PM Recorded on
jb2602 Recorded by
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Insects Assassin bugs (Reduviidae) True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Leistarches serripes Scientific name
Mantis assassin bug Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 592.01m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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