A real Thread-legged Bug (Emesinae, Reduviidae, Hemiptera) - maybe genus Emesaya?
I was looking through the archives for photos of real Thread-legged Bugs (subfamily Emesinae) of the Assassin Bug (Reduviidae) family in the order Hemiptera (see my [Previous] photo), and I found a few.
I got this photo on the dry flats along the Santa Ynez River a few years ago. The insect is prowling along a branch of composite Scale Broom (Lepidospartum squamatum). Maybe it is genus Emesaya? (Paradise, Santa Ynez River, 26 August 2009)
If you look close, you can see that it has no "clubs" on its antennae and it holds its front legs like the predator it is.
A real Thread-legged Bug (Emesinae, Reduviidae, Hemiptera) - maybe genus Emesaya?
I was looking through the archives for photos of real Thread-legged Bugs (subfamily Emesinae) of the Assassin Bug (Reduviidae) family in the order Hemiptera (see my [Previous] photo), and I found a few.
I got this photo on the dry flats along the Santa Ynez River a few years ago. The insect is prowling along a branch of composite Scale Broom (Lepidospartum squamatum). Maybe it is genus Emesaya? (Paradise, Santa Ynez River, 26 August 2009)
If you look close, you can see that it has no "clubs" on its antennae and it holds its front legs like the predator it is.