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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	True Bugs (Hemiptera)
	Family:	Assassin Bug (Cimicomorpha, Reduviidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Pale Assassin Bug (Perissopygocoris pallidus)
	This Photo:	🔍S2, Male, ventral🔎
	Synonym:	Perissopygocoris pallidum
	Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: ~11.5mm long. Predominately pale brown with darker brown patches. Has hairy antennae & a "spine", or projection, eminating from the scutellum.
	Copyright © 2023-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Feb-2023
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.