what´s that??!!!!!!

[ubb]

anabody knows what´s that bug.

The picture was taken last summer in peru.

That incredible insect has parts of mantis, assasin bug and phasmid...INCREDIBLE!!

 

[Morpheus uk]

Cant see ur pic but by the description my guess is a mantisfly, great pic that i cant see btw lol

 

[ubb]

yo can see the pic here:

http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg23/ec...nt=IMG_0815.jpg

but it´s not mantisfly.

 

[Kruszakus]

It looks more like a real bug - it even looks like it has a "snork".

 

[ubb]

snork??

 

[Kruszakus]

You know, a "beak" like Hemiptera have, this strange thing in this picture has something like that.

 

[Morpheus uk]

Still cant see it but my second guess is maybe its a thread legged bug?

They are a kind of assassin bug with raptorial arms

 

[Giosan]

lol his behind (the right side) looks like the head of a crocodile :s

 

[Morpheus uk]

Im seeing it now!

Never seen an abdomen like that!

It is an assasin but tho

 

[ubb]

It´s an assasin bug with raptorial arms but it´s very freak!! I don´t know if that´s the first time that somebody photograph that specie.

 

[ubb]

here is another pic of assasin bug with raporial arms, this is from borneo.

 

[Peter Clausen]

Great photo, unusual bug!

I thought this was a mantis when I caught it in Southern Arizona, USA.

And two photos of a Thread-legged Assassin Bug in Jalisco, Mexico (my mom thought it was a phasmid and was offering it leaves )

 

[ubb]

I caught one similar last year here in Spain, but it was a little nymph and eat drosophilas...hehehe

 

[mantisdeperu]

Hi, There are some bugs of this kind here In perú. They are tropical bugs and here they are called bug-mantids. They are Hemiptera: Reduviidae.