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What’s That Bug? found this beautiful insect never seen anything like it!!
Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:32 AM
found this insect in sao paulo Brazil in the garden of the house had never seen something
would you identify the species!!?!
thanks
William Martins
SÃO PAULO -BRASIL

Dear William,
In North America, members of the family Coreidae are known as Big Legged Bugs or Leaf Footed Bugs. There is one Central American species, Anisocelis flavolineata, that is called the Flag Footed Bug. Several years ago, we posted a wonderful image of a mating pair of Flag Footed Bugs. Then, in November 2008, we received an awesome image of an insect from Costa Rica that appears to be closely related to Anisocelis flavolineata, but is distinctively different in coloration. That insect matches your insect. It is still unidentified, but we are calling it a Flag Footed Bug as well. We hope this time, one of our readers will be able to give us an exact species identification. Your letter is the only one we will be posting this morning. We are busy trying to save the planet one California Black Walnut studded hillside at a time. We have a local Land Issue appeal to prepare for and though we do not have the temerity to compare our couple of acres of natural wilderness in the middle of Los Angeles, in view of the Griffith Observatory and Downtown, to the ravaging of the rain forest in either Brazil or Costa Rica, we are doing what we can to preserve diversity of habitat and open spaces in our own front yard on Mount Washington.

Update: Submitted on 2009/06/19 at 12:05pm
Hi! I believe Williams´s insect is Diactor bilineatus (Fabricius, 1803). In Brazil is called percevejo do maracujá, because is usually found on passion vines (maracujá: Passiflora)
Kind regards from San Antonio Oeste, in Patagonia, Argentina
Mirta

Hi Mirta,
The photo of Diactor bilineatus on TrekNature identified by Annette Aiello Staff Scientist
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute looks related to the insect posted, but definitely a different species or at least a completely different color variation. There is one posted on FlickR that looks closer, but the coloration is still different.

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