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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	True Bugs (Hemiptera)
	Family:	Ground Dwelling Bug (Coreoidea, Hyocephalidae)
	Species:	Ground Dwelling Bug (Hyocephalus aprugnus)
	This Photo:	Dorsal
	General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~9mm long and flightless. These dark bugs live under stones in sandy soil & gravel. It's possible this is one of the other 2 species in this family, Maevius indecorus. We can't differentiate them, but H. aprugnus is known to occur in SA; M. indecorus isn't. They look very similar to juvenile assassin bugs, but their proboscus is straight, not curved. Also their wings are "squared off", nearly all true bug invert wing-buds are rounded. Usually the number of antennae segments is diagnostic. But you can see here one side has 4 & the other 3. A mutation perhaps?
	Copyright © 2018-2022 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 08-Dec-2018
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.