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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	True Bugs (Hemiptera)
	Family:	Assassin Bug (Cimicomorpha, Reduviidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Assassin Bug (Oncocephalus sp ES01)
	This Photo:	Adult, antenna
	General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Adult ~15mm long. Interesting bugs Assassins (Reduviidae), one of the few predatory/carnivorous true bugs (order Hemiptera). Most are vegetarian. One easy diagnostic difference over the similiar Alydidae family are the large front legs as can be seen here; used to hold it's prey. Not all assassins have them, but no Alydidae's do. A more guaranteed diagnostic, but harder to see, is that Assassin's have a curved rostrum / proboscis
	Copyright © 2015-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 10-Nov-2015
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.