Help identify this insect please

[NJDrew]

I found it on my car after coming home from work and have never seen anything like it before. Has, 6 legs, 2 antennas, and maybe a fang or suction tube like a mosquito?

http://www.blitzkriegmedia.com/bug1.jpg
http://www.blitzkriegmedia.com/bug2.jpg

[TundraBunny]

I'm not sure...I was told that insects with mouth tubes use them to draw nectar from plants and fruit. I was accidently stuck by the mouth piece of a similar bug years ago. The bugger was crawling on my neck after it fell out of a hanging plant. I hate bugs and my mother said it was on me and...whack with my hand. Left a nice hole but never got infected. Now I'm leary of hanging plants.

[CyberDyneSystems]

???

...now I consider myself fairly well knowledgeable here.. but this is a mystery.. to such a degree I don't even know where to start doing research to narrow it down?

One place you could try;
http://pub8.ezboard.com/fantfarmtheantfarmsmessageboard

That is one interesting looking critter! I'm fascinated..
Thanks for posting.. great pics :)

[RockOne]

I think it's an ant-mimicking assasin bug (family Reduviidae).

[dale65bama]

Insects with tubular mouth parts may drink nectar, but they may just as well drink the juices of another insect! Can't find my bug book at the moment, but it does appear to be predator like an assassin bug.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Good job rock one!
Most assasin bugs, indeed all those I'd ever heard of,.. look more like this;
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/links/coursefiles/ENT%205051/Gallery/image/jodi_bjork_2.jpg


But.. I was able to find this;

http://www.koleopterologie.de/heteroptera/2cimi1/reduviidae-empicoris-culiciformis-foto-guenther.html

It seems the wings vary drmaitcally in saize.. not sure if it's age or breed.

[TundraBunny]

Yuk! The bug that got me looked alot like that. Now I really will stay away from hanging baskets. Assassin bug...just creeps me out.

[RockOne]

Found this after a bit fo searching. Seems to be very similar. A nymph stage.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4309/bgimage

The bug that got me looked alot like that
From the CSIRO book of Australian insects -
"No species sucking vertebrate blood is known from Australia, but several, particulary the larger ones, are reported as inflicting painfal bites in humans".
Be careful of them !!