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Family Reduviidae
This page contains pictures and information about Red Spiny Assassin Bugs that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
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- Although this Red Assassin Bug is medium in size, its fore legs is very
strong and spiny. The bug is orange-red in colour with black wings. Its legs
are orange-red too. There are the strong spines on head and on pronotum.
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- The pictures above show the assassin bug feeding a ladybird
larva on a
Milkweed plant. We found this assassin bug when we were studying ladybird larvae as
predator on aphids. Somehow the ladybird
larva became the prey. We took those
pictures in early spring in a bushland near Macgregor bushland in Brisbane summer Dec
2002.
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- The second time we found this assassin bug was in Brisbane Botanic Garden
Jun 2008. The bug was hunting on citrus tree.
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- It was an active flier. It flied between leaves when we taking those photos.
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- We found the assassin bug again on May 2010 next to Bulimba Creek near
Wishart.
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- Reference:
- 1. Scipinia horrida
- Insects of Taiwan, 2007
- 2. Scipinia
arenacea -
lifeseen.com, by Nick Monaghan.
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