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- This page contains pictures and information about Assassin Bugs that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Assassin Bug and its strong piercing-sucking mouthparts
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- All Assassin bugs are predators. They prey on all small animal such as
snails, insects (especially caterpillars), spiders and other arthropods. Please
find more general information about assassin bugs in this page.
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- Followings listed the assassin bugs we found. Please click on each thumbnail
for detail informtion.
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Subfamily Harpactorinae - Long legs Assassin Bugs
- Assassin bugs in this subfamily are usually long-legged and hunting on
plants. They usually active during the day time.
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Subfamily Peiratinae - Ground Assassin Bugs
- Bugs in this subfamily are usually robust, ground-living and active during
the night. Most are brown or black in colours.
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Subfamily Tegeinae -
Termite Assassin Bugs
- There is only one species in this subfamily. They are the termite
predator.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 494.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p150.
- 3. Family REDUVIIDAE
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 4. Reduviidae - Australian National Insect Collection Database,
Web site by Steve Shattuck and Natalie Barnett, © Copyright 2005-2010 CSIRO Australia.
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