Pittosporum Bug: Adult, profile

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pittosporum Bug (Pseudapines geminata)

This Photo:

🔍Adult, profile🔎

Thank you Dee Petersen & Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
These are quite small bugs. We haven't measured one, but adults are ~7mm long.
Early instars are circular, elongating to an oval shape as they age. 1st instars only have 2 white spots (one on each site), getting more as they molt. Instars are black with white spots/patches and orange antennae, while adults attain some orange/chestnut highlights to the edge of the body. The adult patterns are very consistent between specimens
Underneath, they are very pale, and the legs have a blue tinge to them.

This species is

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

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