Long Thin Plant Bug

Megaloceroea recticornis

An elongate grass bug with a longitudinal furrow between the eyes, this species is distinguished by the extremely long antennae (the 1st segment alone is almost as long as the head and pronotum combined) and very long, slender hind legs. The tarsi are all dark. Unlike Notostira elongata, the tibiae and 1st antennal segments are covered with short spinose hairs.
Elongate grass bug top When I found my first grass bug it was a dead one, but I put it on Jungledragon anyway just to show the specie. Now I am happy that I have found a live one and managed to get some good pictures of it. It was sitting just 10 meter from the place I found the dead one a year ago. Is that coincidence or is that place a gras bug hospot? ;) Dutch name: Graswants (Megaloceroea recticornis) Geotagged,Megaloceroea recticornis,The Netherlands

Appearance

Length 8-10 mm.

While the body colour of adults varies from straw-yellow to green, the nymphs are green with two brown bands on the thorax.

A widespread and common species of grasslands, uncut meadows and woodland borders.

Source: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/megaloceraea_recticornis.html

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderHemiptera
FamilyMiridae
GenusMegaloceroea
Species
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Netherlands
United States of America