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mysteriesBlue spiky fiddle bug with red shoes and feelers
June 13, 2010
This bug caught my attention because it was blue and red against white vinyl siding. (Cheering for USA in the World Cup?)
The metal spikes and two blood red eyeballs on its abdomen make for an evil-looking insect, but it looked more lost than anything.
Photos taken at 5:30pm, 11 June 2010.
Maybe he has a bright idea?
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Leaf Footed Bug Nymph: Acanthocephala species
This is an immature Leaf Footed Bug or Big Legged Bug in the family Coreidae. Often immature insects are difficult to identify to the species level because they change in appearance as they grow. We have located a similar looking, also unidentified nymph on BugGuide, and that specimen was from Louisiana. The person who submitted the photo was raising the nymphs in a terrarium, and there was some serial commentary, but there is no indication that they were ever properly identified.
Leaf Footed Bug Nymph
We have posted a comment on the BugGuide page to inquire if the nymph was ever correctly identified.
Leaf Footed Bug Nymph
Update: Acanthocephala species
We received a comment from lttlechkn question if this might be the nymph of Acanthocephala terminalis. This is a good possibility, but the match to Acanthocephala declivis seems even close, based on a photo, also from Georgia, that is posted to BugGuide.
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Comments 2
Even though its not identified on BugGuide, could it possibly be Acanthocephala terminalis?
Posted 14 Jun 2010 at 3:09 am ¶Using the photos on this page as a reference http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~larsonmorgan/True%20Bugs/
Thanks for assisting with this identification. If it is not Acanthocephala terminalis, is is surely another member of the genus.
Posted 14 Jun 2010 at 9:02 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
[...] Your nymph is a Leaf Footed Bug or Big Legged Bug in the family Coreidae. Just last week a similar image was sent to us, and that specimen was identified as a member of the genus Acanthocephala. You can compare your [...]
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