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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	True Bugs (Hemiptera)
	Family:	Thread-legged Assassin Bug (Cimicomorpha, Reduviidae, Emesinae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Large Thread-legged Assassin Bug (Emesinae sp)
	This Photo:	🔍S2, profile, close🔎
	General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~16 to ~18mm long. Legs & antennae span a huge 70mm! Fairly hairless. White knees, plain body, wings & legs. We'd never seen a thread-legged assassin bug before and suddenly 3 came to the night light. There were 2 species, this one and a smaller one.
	Copyright © 2021-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 13-Mar-2021
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.