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Post by livingplanet3 on Mar 20, 2021 19:12:19 GMT -8
Holotrichius innesi - an infamous assassin bug that I recall reading about many years ago, which reputedly has the strongest known venom of any reduviid. It's a sand-dwelling species (at least, in the juvenile stage) found in some parts of the Middle East, and feeds on scorpions. Its bite is rumored to have caused a number of human fatalities, although this has never actually been formally confirmed. In Israel, the insect is known as the Afrur (dirt) because it covers itself with particles of earth -
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