Subject: Is a diptera?
Geographic location of the bug: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Date: 03/17/2018
Time: 05:20 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Hi I have different images of these two insects mating, they are not very clear but I am wondering what do you think is?
How you want your letter signed: Che
Dear Che,
These are not mating Flies in the order Diptera. Rather they are mating True Bugs in the suborder Heteroptera, and based on this BugGuide image, they look to us like mating Texas Bow Legged Bugs, Hyalymenus tarsatus, a species that BugGuide indicates ranges from: “CA-AL to Brazil.”
