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 Red assassin bug; Rhynocoris?
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| nick upton |
Posted on 29-01-2011 11:48
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Can anyone ID this red assassin bug? Reduviidae. I think it is Rhynocoris iracundus or rubricus but I'm not sure how to tell them apart and it may be something else altogether. 21.7.2010 Zadar province, Croatia near coast, c12mm. nick upton attached the following image:  [116.99Kb] Edited by nick upton on 06-02-2011 19:29 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 29-01-2011 11:49
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
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nick upton attached the following image:  [129.82Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 06-02-2011 19:35
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
I found this link http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Rhynocoris_iracundus which offers a way to separate R. iracundus from R. rubrica - rubricus has a generally black rather than red frontal lobe of the pronotum and narrower red bands on the legs than rubrica. On that basis I think this is R. iracundus, but an expert might say it rally needs a specimen/microscope.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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