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Box bug nymph, cimice del nocciolo

Gonocerus acuteangolatus

Description:

Tiny nymph, 3mm long... With a bit of luck it could become like this guy here: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/394...

Habitat:

On blackberry plant

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Box Bug Nymph or Cimice del nocciolo Ninfa
Gonocerus acuteangulatus (Coreidae) Gonocerus acuteangulatus


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4 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Please, change the common name as well, thanks.
Box Bug Nymph or Cimice del nocciolo Ninfa.

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Cool! That's almost as valuable as an expert confirmation ;-)...

FilippoGuerra
FilippoGuerra 9 years ago

Actually there was a lot of G. acuteangulatus on bushes nearby. Thanks for the ID

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Coreidae, Coreinae, Gonocerus acuteangulatus, mid instar nymph.
It is a Leaf-footed Byg, not a Stink Bug. Looking at several pictures of nymphs, which are usually very tricky to impossible to ID, I think yours should be Gonocerus acuteangulatus. Maybe you can see some adults on the same bushes or trees.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashe/57805...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonocerus_a...
http://artengalerie.makro-forum.de/displ...
http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteropter...
http://www.natur-in-nrw.de/IMG/Tiere/Ins...
http://www.natur-in-nrw.de/HTML/Tiere/In...
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/v...
http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.p...

FilippoGuerra
Spotted by
FilippoGuerra

Trento, TAA, Italy

Spotted on Jul 1, 2014
Submitted on Jul 1, 2014

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