by Jeffrey S. Pippen | Back to Jeff's Miscellaneous Invertebrates Page | Jeff's Nature Pages
About 60 species or so are recognized for North America. They resemble small walking stick bugs, but thread-legged bugs walk only on their 4 hind legs, using their front two legs for grasping like a mantis. |
Thread-legged Bug, perhaps Emesaya brevipennis Pine woods in Orange Co., NC 2 Oct 2009 |
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Thread-legged Bug, perhaps Emesaya brevipennis Pine woods in Orange Co., NC 2 Oct 2009 ID best guess from bugguide.net |
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Thread-legged Bug, perhaps Emesaya brevipennis Pine woods in Orange Co., NC 2 Oct 2009 |
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Thread-legged Bug, perhaps Emesaya brevipennis Pine woods in Orange Co., NC 2 Oct 2009 Some authorities place the thread-legged bugs as a subfamily of the Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) as I've done here. Others elevate them to their own family, the Ploiariidae. |
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Thread-legged Bug, perhaps Emesaya brevipennis Pine woods in Orange Co., NC 2 Oct 2009 |
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