Pale Spotted Mirid: S1, ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Jumping Tree Bug (Cimicomorpha, Miridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pale Spotted Mirid (Metopocoris sp)

This Photo:

🔍S1, ventral🔎

Thank you Danilo Lüdke (lehelind) for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6mm long, 4 segment antennae.
Danilo highlighted it looked a lot like Metopocoris cassiae. But it seems it's too small and the pronotum is quite dark, so possibly an undescribed species.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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