Posted by nick upton on 29-01-2011 11:48
#1
Can anyone ID this red assassin bug? Reduviidae. I think it is Rhynocoris iracundus or rubricus but I'm not sure how to tell them apart and it may be something else altogether.
21.7.2010 Zadar province, Croatia near coast, c12mm.
Edited by nick upton on 06-02-2011 19:29
Posted by nick upton on 06-02-2011 19:35
#3
I found this link http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Rhynocoris_iracundus which offers a way to separate R. iracundus from R. rubrica - rubricus has a generally black rather than red frontal lobe of the pronotum and narrower red bands on the legs than rubrica. On that basis I think this is R. iracundus, but an expert might say it rally needs a specimen/microscope.