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Dear Bugman,
Can you help me with this one? This beautiful insect is on Cassia fistula, a small, quite common tree in the Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico area. Very calm, not easily disturbed by being moved around or photographed, but I haven’t seen it on any other plant except the cassia. Many thanks if you can identify it.
Hi Nancy,
This is a Giant Mesquite Bug nymph, Thasus acutangulus. They nymphs are much more colorful as the adults wings cover the patterned abdomen. Most of our U.S. reports of the Giant Mesquite Bug come from Arizona.
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