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Cotton Stainer Bug

Dysdercus sp.

Habitat:

Grassland. (1,2 km from point number 6 on the Mlawula nature reserve map)

1 Species ID Suggestions

stho002
stho002 9 years ago
Cotton stainer
Dysdercus sp.


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5 Comments

pamsai
pamsai 9 years ago

Thanks stho002, bayucca, tmvdh and kate for puzzling over the ID of this bug...

KateBraun
KateBraun 9 years ago

This is most likely the same species as this one:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/142...
... but no advance yet on getting closer than Dysdercus sp.

tmvdh
tmvdh 9 years ago

Hi bayucca, I agree: Definitely Dysdercus - but I've got no idea about the species :-(

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Pyrrhocoridae, Dysdercus sp. and despite many of the IDs on the web, I am sceptic about all IDs. There are almost no trustable infos about Dysdercus in Southern Africa. See my comment here with a lot of links and discussions (within the links!):
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/128...

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Mbabane, Sifundza seHhohho, Swaziland

Spotted on Apr 6, 2014
Submitted on May 21, 2014

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