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Family Reduviidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Red Ground Assassin Bugs that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 20mm
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- This ground assassin bug has the red head and thorax. All its legs are red,
antenna are orange in colour.
Wingless female
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- This Red Ground Assassin Bug was found on Nov 2007 in Karawatha Forest. It
was hiding under the bark of a burnt Paper Bark Tree trunk. It is
wingless and abdomen is
steel-blue in colours with two cream white spots on top.
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- The bug was slow moving. Not running fast as other Ground
Assassin Bug. Unlike the other Ground
Assassin Bug, it was found on tree trunk and not on ground.
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Winged-male Red Ground Assassin Bug
 
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- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest on Nov 2009. The bug was walking
up on a large stingy-bark gum tree trunk. It hided under the bark when we
came too closely. It looked very similar to the above species expect
winged.
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- We found this bug twice in Karawatha Forest, all were on Stringy Bark Gum
Trees.
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- Reference:
- 1. Reduviidae:
Ectomocoris decoratus (Stal) - assassin bug - ICDB, AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
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