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Eucalyptus Shield Bug Nymph

PENTATOMIDAE

Description:

2mm approximately

Habitat:

In remnant coastal woodlands on a ridge

Notes:

It fell out of a tree or something and landed on my hand. There was only time for a couple of shaky shots with the wrong hand. Bad image but it is an interesting looking thing so it has been persevered with # round bug that fell on my hand Thanks Mark Ridgeway for helping get the id. Still looking to find which bug and still some doubt

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8 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

It's certainly a chubby little bug.

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

revised (tentatively) :-)

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

Looking more and more like it is tipping your way, some of these first instars look round also

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

Thanks Mark I would not have known to look there but I am unsure. It does look like them in the photo but this one is round in three dimensions rather than flattened. That face is flat in a vertical sense It may still be a pentatomid but not one that I have seen in nymph form myself yet. I will look into them a little further

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

With 3 antennal segments and that pattern on the abdomen I think you'd be pretty safe to say it's a Pentatomid bug and possibly a Eucalyptus shield bug hatchling. Check these... http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/12/24/u...

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

nothing yet

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

It is a strange little thing

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

Interesting little bug, Stephen !

StephenSolomons
Spotted by
StephenSolomons

New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Jan 11, 2014
Submitted on Jan 11, 2014

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