Red Tiger Assassin Bug - Havinthus rufovarius

Family Reduviidae

This page contains pictures and information about Red Tiger Assassin Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.


Adult body length 18mm

We took those pictures in Karawatha Forest on a gum tree trunk during early October. The Assassin Bug was wandering on the tree trunk. It did not care very much on our approaching and taking those pictures.


Adult, body length 18mm

After we took pictures for a few minutes. It flied to another tree trunk a few meter away.



We usually found this bug on gum tree trunk.



This Assassin Bug was found in later summer on a gum tree trunk in Wishart Bushland. The is bright orange red in colour with black pattern. The nymph has the same colour scheme, look the same except wingless.


Nymph, body length 15mm



The bug can also be found in Eight Mile Plains near Bulimba Creek early spring in August.







Reference:
1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 496.
2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p150.
3. Reduviidae: Havinthus rufovarius (Bergroth) - assassin bug - - ICDB, AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA.