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Tessaratoma papillosa
About 40mm in lenght with elongate body is one of the largest shield bugs, light brown at back and white abdomen, small and triangular head with red eyes, antennae with 4 segments, triangular scutellum. Like all hemipterans possess a piercing-sucking mouthpart for feeding.
Spotted at Nusa Dua, Bal, Indonesia, coastal area
Kingdom: Animalia Clade: Euarthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera Suborder: Heteroptera Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha Superfamily: Pentatomoidea Family: Tessaratomidae Genus: Tessaratoma papillosa
Spotted on Aug 18, 2015
Submitted on Aug 22, 2015
2 Comments
thanks tmvdh!
It's a true bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)