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Ground Dwelling Bug
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
| Family: | Ground Dwelling Bug (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? | |||||
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