kleptoparasitic

I photographed the assassin bug with prey in the photo earlier this week in Chaco Province, Argentina in a soybean field. The prey is a stink bug, Piezodorus guildenii. The flies crawled all over the assassin bug as it fed, and the bug would periodically wipe its forelegs slowly over its head to dislodge flies that had settled on it.

Taxonomic name:

Chloropidae (Classification)

Associated taxa:

Reduviidae

Piezodorus guildenii

Assassin bug with pentatomid prey and kleptoparasitic Milichiidae and Chloropidae 2

Licence:

Imaging technique:

Photograph

Keywords:

habitus live, kleptoparasitic

Description:

Taxonomic name:

Milichiella lacteipennis (Classification), Chloropidae (Classification)

Associated taxa:

Reduviidae

Piezodorus guildenii

Assassin bug with pentatomid prey and kleptoparasitic Milichiidae and Chloropidae

Licence:

Imaging technique:

Photograph

Keywords:

habitus live, kleptoparasitic

Description:

Taxonomic name:

Milichiella lacteipennis (Classification), Chloropidae (Classification)

Associated taxa:

Reduviidae

Piezodorus guildenii

Fly on head of crab spider attacking honeybee.jpg

Licence:

Imaging technique:

Photograph

Keywords:

kleptoparasitic

Description:

Desmometopa sp resting on head of crab spider (Misumena vatia (Thomisidae) feeding on honeybee (Apis mellifera) which had been visiting flowers of Eupatorium serotinum

Taxonomic name:

Desmometopa (Classification)

Associated taxa:

Apis mellifera

Misumena vatia

Eupatorium serotinum