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Edessa sp
This stink bug is about 3/4" long
Tropical wet forest in Sw Costa Rica less than a mile to the ocean and at 400' above sea level.
Edessa olivacea?
Edessa sp37?
It is very difficult to determine from a dead animal! I am going to put Edessa sp for now. Thanks Bayucca.
I apologize your coupon for Edessa rufomarginata is no more valid, we are sold out. Please, go back to field #1 and restart, meaning try to get an ID. But I told you that I need to back for being sure! I still think it might be an Edessa sp., but definitely not Edessa rufomarginata, I agree. And I think this little stinkers might also be a little nightmare...
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
For being sure and serious: Stink Bug, Pentatomidae.
I might be wrong but I don't think it is the rufomarginata. I had a photo of the back of the stink bug which came out terrible. I uploaded it and it is different from the rufomarginata. The rufomarginata stripes are a little thinner and it doesn't have that little bluish patch underneath and behind the head.
Pentatomidae, Edessa rufomarginata. Quite common in the neotropics. But my ID is only correct if the other side looked like this!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/12...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/22...