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Red-black Shieldbug,Percevejo

Graphosoma lineatum

Description:

Graphosoma lineatum is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is also known as the Italian Striped-Bug and Minstrel Bug. It is often found on the flowers of the Greater Pignut, Bunium bulbocastanum, as shown in the photograph. The bold red and black warning colours (aposematism) indicate that the insects are foul-tasting

Habitat:

The insects are common across Southern Europe.

Notes:

spotted in the river homem,félinhos river beach

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Graphosoma lineatum
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36 Comments (1–25)

Thanks Daniel,Yuriana and Jason for your kind words

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

Perfect timing!

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

great spotting Antonio, as usually from you!

DanielHernández
DanielHernández 11 years ago

CCHHUUZZOO

J you are making a tour in my popular ones,thanks my friend :)

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

Lovely!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks Ricardo,great info i trie to smeel them next time :)

Ricardo Salgueiro
Ricardo Salgueiro 11 years ago

Nice series. This specie of shieldbugs even though it is closely related to the foul smelling bugs smells like apples :)

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks very much again Dan,yeah,i agreed,i would love to found a bowtie with these colour :),i've been in the place again today and they continue their sexual frenesin,so we are going to have many red blacked like these ,i hope to spott the team :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Wow! Amazing! The first photo looks like a bowtie.

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Funny my "not very good" photo came up :)

Thank you for liking....

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks Jolly

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

@thanks Dixie
@thanks ToshimiDowaki

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks Emma you allways are very kind to us,thanks for your support :)

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Beautiful

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks very much Atul

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

thanks Jeannette i saw your spotting in google when i was researching for more info about these guy's and i make a like in it :) so they are spreading to north,here is also the first time i saw them,but from what i read is a relativly common species

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Great shot :)
I have one of them too, unfortunately I had the wrong lens on....
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/834...
They where first seen in Denmark in 1992 so they are a relatively new species here, unfortunately I've only seen them once...

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks Luis :)

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

@thanks gracie-o

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

Thanks Karen, I promisse Sérgio (these colours are of his soccer team) to sent him a couple if i find some after they finish their lifecicle :)

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Great spot Antonio! I like their football jerseys!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

@thanks Willie you have allways a smart comment to us :) i'am going to follow from now one the life of these guys :)

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

thanks Ava for your kind words,i tried to make the spotting much compreensive as possible for the others,so a last local photo is sometimes an element important for the id :)

ToshimiDowaki
ToshimiDowaki 11 years ago

Wonderful series!

Braga, Portugal

Spotted on Jul 10, 2012
Submitted on Jul 12, 2012

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