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Oechalia sp.
Staring eyeballs on a stick.
Each one is about 1.5mm wide. Maybe 30-40 total.
On the tip of a stem of black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) in a local nature reserve.
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/plants/field-...
order: HEMIPTERA
suborder: HETEROPTERA
infraorder: PENTATOMOMORPHA
superfamily: PENTATOMOIDEA
family: PENTATOMIDAE
subfamily: Asopinae
http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/forestry/forest...
Spotted on Oct 17, 2014
Submitted on Oct 17, 2014
3 Comments
Also SA Forestry has a clear description http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/forestry/forest...
I couldn't find any reasonable alternatives (although that's not very scientific of me). The images on Peter Chew's site are a (near) perfect match to these and shows them hatching. http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_...
Nice pic.
Are you confident with that ID?
I was not confident to ID mine.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/876...