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Diemenia rubromarginata
This attractive little bug was sitting on a broken branch stump on a large barkless eucalyptus log - the only place that could match it's appearance. About 16mm long with etched black body and a perimeter of pale copper colour. Banding on antennae. I loved the way it found the best possible place to camouflage itself.
Within a nature reserve incorporating stringybark, acacias, pomaderris, pittosporum, assorted woody shrubs and grasses.
order: HEMIPTERA
suborder: HETEROPTERA
infraorder: PENTATOMOMORPHA
superfamily: PENTATOMOIDEA
family: PENTATOMIDAE
subfamily: Pentatominae
tribe: Diemeniini
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Diemenia+r...
Spotted on Oct 11, 2013
Submitted on Oct 12, 2013
3 Comments
Scientific name changed.
I think the Morwell one might work if we say it's a previous instar to this one? The wing buds are shorter than here. I do like the antenna segments and bands and bands on legs... ?
This has advanced wing buds and looks like the penultimate molt. I suspect notius depressus which you have already seen a newly eclosed one which was still pink.
Here are two references showing nymphs and the morwell one does cast some doubt about my inference. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/895...
http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/sh...