Leistarches serripes
Mantis assassin bug at Acton, ACT
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| Leistarches serripes | KimPullen | 16 Mar 2019 | |
| Unverified | jb2602 | 14 Mar 2019 |
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OK Kim, what's going on here?
3 comments
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.
17 Mar 2019
A great photo from ALA:
https://images.ala.org.au/image/viewer?imageId=ea300234-8416-493a-bc5e-e132fda8ab1e
https://images.ala.org.au/image/viewer?imageId=ea300234-8416-493a-bc5e-e132fda8ab1e
18 Mar 2019
Extraordinary, the best I could come with was that the antennae were the front legs and it was eating something.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.110072-35.289663
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin West
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 10 Mar 2019 10:11 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
Collections
- jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Leistarches serripes Assassin bugs (Reduviidae) True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) Insects
Species information
- Leistarches serripes Scientific name
- Mantis assassin bug Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 615.09m Recorded at altitude
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