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Plautia crossota
Plautia crossota (Dallas, 1951), called the Brown-winged Stink Bug, of family Pentatomidae (Leach, 1815). Spotted this 5th instar stink bug nymph on a pod of a Dwarf Poinciana plant, Caesalpinia pulcherrima. Adult spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/192.... 3rd/4th instar nymph: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/148....
Backyard.
Reference: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteropter... http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
Spotted on Jan 26, 2013
Submitted on Mar 8, 2013
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