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Edessa sp.
Today, April 21, is World Hemiptera Day. So in keeping with that I’m posting this beautiful Hemiptera, a Shield Bug, also called Stink Bug. This is in the true “Bug” family and is a striking turquoise color with yellow legs and underside. The points of its pronotum are black as are the tips of its wings. The upper parts of its wings are a dark gray with yellow veins.
Photographed at night on a blade of grass on the edge of a village in the Amazon rainforest of SE Ecuador (240 masl).
This is very similar to Edessa rufomarginata but the upper wings are a different color so I will have to leave the specific name unknown.
Spotted on Mar 10, 2020
Submitted on Apr 21, 2021
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Thanks Ingrid. For a change I found a cooperative bug. I got literally dozens of good shots from all angles. It was still there in the morning so I got some daylight shots too, but the night time pictures are much sharper.
Such GREAT viewing angels!!!