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Jewel bug

Choerocoris paganus

Description:

A blue and red Scutelleridae bug. These are associated with hop bush.

Habitat:

Nature reserve in inner city of Melbourne. These were out in numbers on hop bush. Some of the bushes had seeds and they were only on the seeding plants.

Notes:

I have found paler ones of these on the same species.

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2 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

Thanks sunnyjosef
Here is the pale form which had me a bit confused for a while.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/105...

sunnyjosef
sunnyjosef 9 years ago

Wow!! Great colors Martin!!

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Nov 29, 2014
Submitted on Nov 29, 2014

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