Melanolestes picipes

[Hisserdude]

@Brunneria, I finally got some assassins!  Got a pair of these from a trade with Mastigoproctus on AB, (AKA Micheal Dixon, the owner of Mike's House of A Thousand Legs), and they are very nice! I love the red bordering on these guys, hopefully I will be able to breed them!Male:

Female:

 

[avn]

I remember when I was in the Amazon that these would give you a disease if they bit you. 

Are the captive ones safer?

 

[Hisserdude]

I remember when I was in the Amazon that these would give you a disease if they bit you. 

Are the captive ones safer?

Those are the bloodsucking "kissing bugs" in the subfamily Triatominae, and are in a completely different subfamily than these. Melanolestes (and most other assassin bugs for that matter) eat insects and do not transmit any diseases. They do have venom do, and getting bit would be like getting stung by a bee. As far as I know no one keeps Triatominae in captivity.