North American Wheel Bug (less threateningly)

Three weeks ago, I posted a “circle of life” photo of a North American Wheel Bug preying on a butterfly. Here is a North American Wheel Bug by itself.

Trying to get down as far in the taxonomy as I could for an ID,
» Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
  » Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods
   » Class Insecta - Insects
    » Order Hemiptera - True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies
     » Suborder Heteroptera - True Bugs
      » Infraorder Cimicomorpha
       » Family Reduviidae - Assassin Bugs
        » Subfamily Harpactorinae
         » Tribe Harpactorini
          » Genus Arilus - Wheel Bugs
           » Species cristatus - North American Wheel Bug

and noticing how disorganized my bug photos had become led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. The ID came quickly and was embarrassing, but I organized my bug photos in the Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)** and Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids) folders.

» ID’ed as Arilus cristatus or “North American Wheel Bug” at BugGuide
» Species page at BugGuide.net
» More [than you cared to know] about “True bugs”: [ Smithsonian Institution ] [ Wikipedia ]

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** HEMIPTERA: “hemi 'half' + pteron 'wing'; refers mainly to True Bugs, whose forewings have a leathery basal part and membranous apical portion,” since you came down to this footnote!

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Looking back
  1 year ago: “Kids’ new house: Top of the ‘Dad List’”
2 years ago: “Last family-of-three photo”
3 years ago: “Excavated from the vault [Filler]”
4 years ago: No post
5 years ago: “Last hair cut from Brittany?”
6 years ago: “Mother and daughters”
7 years ago: “Strained rotator cuff…”
8 years ago: “Silver-spotted Skipper”
9 years ago: “Vanessa atalanta”
10 years ago: “If if has to be a Painted Lady…”
11 years ago: “Sunset rowing”

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