Toad Stink Bug: S4 & S5, Mating

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Toad Stink Bug (Platycoris rugosus)

This Photo:

🔍S4 & S5, Mating🔎

Synonym:

Hypogomphus rugosus

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Males are considerably smaller than females at ~8mm long, while larger females are ~11mm.
We found two copulating allowing us to show the difference in sizes & posterior shapes.
As their common name suggests, they are very rotund bugs compared with other Pentatomidae.
This species is quite brown, with some reddish overtones.
Rugosus indicates the rough text of it's upper body. Directly translated means "full of wrinkles, folds or creases".

This species is

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

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