cyan-biologist: bogleech: holy shit this ambush bug convergently evolved the same claws as a crab!!!
cyan-biologist:bogleech:holy shit this ambush bug convergently evolved the same claws as a crab!!!??I’m sure some people are like “yeah don’t a lot of bugs have that” NO, THEY DON’T, this is the first I’ve ever seen this in an insect!The only source I can find is just this blog, but I can’t find a latin name. They do provide a comparison between this and the forelegs of other ambush bugs:The “crab claw” in this photo though looks like even yet another species from the first one. Is it a whole group like this?? I have no ideaThis. is. Awesome.Tribe Carcinocorini, apparently! -- source link
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