Pale Assassin Bug: S2, Male, Scutellum Spine

Pale Assassin Bug (Perissopygocoris pallidus)

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Assassin Bug (Cimicomorpha, Reduviidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pale Assassin Bug (Perissopygocoris pallidus)

This Photo:

🔍S2, Male, Scutellum Spine🔎

Synonym:

Perissopygocoris pallidum

Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
~11.5mm long.
Predominately pale brown with darker brown patches. Has hairy antennae & a "spine", or projection, eminating from the scutellum.

This species is

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

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