Assassin Bug: Adult, ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Assassin Bug (Cimicomorpha, Reduviidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Assassin Bug (Oncocephalus sp ES01)

This Photo:

Adult, ventral

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Adult ~15mm long.
Interesting bugs Assassins (Reduviidae), one of the few predatory/carnivorous true bugs (order Hemiptera). Most are vegetarian.
One easy diagnostic difference over the similiar Alydidae family are the large front legs as can be seen here; used to hold it's prey. Not all assassins have them, but no Alydidae's do.
A more guaranteed diagnostic, but harder to see, is that Assassin's have a curved rostrum / proboscis

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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