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Assassin BugsWhat’s this striking orange bug?
My guess is that it’s some variety of stinkbug, although I confess I didn’t poke it to see if it produced a stench. This was taken at the Heard Science Museum and Nature Preserve in McKinney, Texas in March 2006. The critter is perched on the bark of the largest sycamore tree in the preserve.
Joy
Hi Joy,
This is most definitely an Assassin Bug in the family Reduviidae, but we are not sure of the species. We would like to get Eric Eaton to substantiate this. Eric just wrote in with this information: ” The orange assassin bug is a Pselliopus sp., probably P. barberi.”
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