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This bug was only 4 or 5 mm long. It was a deep borwn with white markings. Eyes and legs were red. Antennae had 5 segments. the last natennal segment could have had white markings.
Spotted under bright lights near a national park and suburban gardens.
This is the smallest bug I've seen and I need to find an ID. Thanks to bayucca for suggestions - have to investigate further- antennal segments in this bug are 5, as opposed to 4 in Lygaeid bugs.
Spotted on Jan 27, 2014
Submitted on Jan 28, 2014
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Welcome. Getting down at least to the correct family would help a lot, but I have no clue even for the family...
bayucca, I always appreciate your help and thoroughness - thanks so much. I will go through all your suggestions. This is definitely going to be a lesson for me on these bugs ! Thanks again.
I would agree with Pentatomorpha, but I am sceptic about Pentatomidae and even Pentatomoidea. In my eyes I think it might be a Lygaeoidea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygaeoidea
There you see many families with many very similar ones. I did not found a reasonable match looking for common families in Australia like Lygaeidae and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyparochro... (which were formerly classified as a subfamily of Lygaeidae). Just some example for illustration:
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygaeidae
http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseas...
The pronotum seen not looking like yours.
Sorry, I cannot help you more...