Litchi Stink Bug

Tessaratoma javanica

Description:

Large brown and leathery looking

Notes:

At Mount Papandayan there were many of these, and they seemed to be attracted to the sulfur vents on the mountain. There were many dead ones that had apparently died from the sulfur fumes.

1 Species ID Suggestions

achmmad 11 years ago

Litchi Bug

Tessaratoma javanica Tessaratoma javanica Thunberg & other images

6 Comments

Susan Slater 8 years ago

Can I use this photo for a dictionary (it will be an application). If so, who should I credit the photo to?
Thank you for your help.

matt493 11 years ago

Id be pretty scared if I saw it irl

alicelongmartin 11 years ago

Cool!

DeniseT 11 years ago

Thanks for the information Achmmad and Goody. :)

achmmad 11 years ago

Similar to my spotting .. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/925...

Aaron_G 11 years ago

Beautiful bug! This is actually a true bug in the order Hemiptera (further classified into suborder Heteroptera) and not a beetle (order Coleoptera).

Spotted by
DeniseT

West Java, Indonesia

Spotted on Nov 7, 2010
Submitted on Mar 8, 2012