Thread-legged Bug
Stenopoda spinulosa
This delicate assassin bug lives among dry grasses, shrubs, and low vegetation where its long, threadlike legs help it disappear into the background. It is a patient predator, waiting motionless before seizing small insects with spined front legs and piercing them with a sharp beak. Its diet is mostly tiny flies, plant bugs, and other soft-bodied arthropods. A notable feature is its extremely slender, sticklike outline, which makes camouflage as important to its hunting as speed or strength.
- Type
- Stealth
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- ?
- Thread-legged Bug