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assassin bug
-1.83, 138.7
Field Notes
Description:
An unidentified assassin bug. Same species as seen earlier on this transect http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13264007 "Reduviidae is a large, cosmopolitan family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera. It includes assassin bugs, wheel bugs, and thread-legged bugs. There are about 7,000 species altogether, making it one of the largest families in the Hemiptera. Predatory Reduviidae use the long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey, which are then sucked out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae
Habitat:
Spotted on vegetation along transect in secondary coastal lowland mixed freshwater swamp forest/sago swamp forest.
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