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Good Evening,
My friend and I went to Mammoth Cave, KY to photograph some bugs and to say there was an intriguing assortment would be an understatement. There were several critters that I presume were cave dwellers out and about as they had little to no pigment; there were little fuzzy cotton ball aphid types of some kind that if you gently blew on the branch would start dancing and others that were just fantastic looking period. So, I thought I would share and my friend is tremendously curious about the little one that sat as a very patient model on my finger (and his arm). I’ve never seen anything like it. Sincerely,
Teresa
Hi Teresa,
The patient model is an immature Hemipteran, or True Bug. It is most certainly in the family Coreidae, the Leaf Footed Bugs or Big Legged Bugs. Nymphs are often very difficult to identify, but your specimen has such distinctive antennae, we thought it might be easy. The closest we could find on BugGuide is an immature Squash Bug in the genus Anasa, but it is not correct. We will check with Eric Eaton to see if he recognizes this very distinctive nymph.
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