Assassin Bug

Ectomocoris ornatus
Subfamily: Peiratinae,
Family Reduviidae.

This was found in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The distribution for the species is mainly New South Wales and southeast Queensland.

The shot was taken with Olympus OMD MII with a 30mm macro lens at F4.5 and shutter of 1/320 with the camera mounted in a jig. The shots were collected using in-camera focus bracketing with two passes to collect 100 shots. The image was focus stacked using Boltnev & Kacher's Focus Stacker app.

Assassin Bug Ectomocoris ornatus - Dorsal view

Assassin Bug Ectomocoris ornatus - lateral view

©Phil Warb