Aradellus cygnalis

An assassin bug at Dunlop, ACT

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Identification history

Aradellus cygnalis	11 Apr 2020	Bron
Aradellus cygnalis	18 Mar 2020	Bron
Unidentified	9 Dec 2019	Christine

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12 comments

Harrisi wrote:

10 Dec 2019

Looks more like a bug? Note lack of symmetry in 'wings'..

Christine wrote:

10 Dec 2019

Thanks Stuart, I'd say that sounds right. It was a day with lots of beetles out and about though :)

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

10 Dec 2019

Photo downloaded, cropped & added back to aid ID.
Certainly a bug.

Christine wrote:

11 Apr 2020

Thanks Bron, but now it appears to be coming up as a Grasshopper??

Bron wrote:

11 Apr 2020

I suppose it's the software re-write Christine, I'll let Aaron know. I'm not sure how to find out the number of any given sighting - it's not obvious - do you know?

Christine wrote:

11 Apr 2020

Yes, this is in the URL, and the last number is the number of the sighting: "https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Sightings/4244490"
Thanks heaps, Christine.

Bron wrote:

11 Apr 2020

Great. Thanks Christine, I need to clean my glasses :)

RogerF wrote:

11 Apr 2020

Good find, not often seen. Was it under bark or wandering around. Related to the very plumose Ptilocnemis, feather-legged bugs in the Holoptilinae . Ant feeders. (I don't get to see other insects other than grasshoppers now)

Bron wrote:

11 Apr 2020

They are fairly unusual Roger I've found them three times, all in Belconnen, in 2015/16. Always under bark. I'll put the sightings up after the site renovation is done. BTW I'd like to say how often I refer to your wonderful book :). The concept is very clever and helpful during my wanderings.

Christine wrote:

11 Apr 2020

Hi Roger, it was on the tree trunk where there was loose bark, but it was in the open when I saw and photographed it. I tried just now to add the photo not so cropped, for context, but the system would not let me edit the sighting (only replace or delete, so I just closed my session).

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

13 Apr 2020

ALA has it in Reduviidae, so I've moved it out of grasshoppers into Assassin bugs (Reduviidae).
I won't bother to ask how it got into grasshoppers.

RogerF wrote:

13 Apr 2020

Also no idea but it was a good error as I got to see it!

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