Rutherglen Bug Ventral | Peaceful Seed Bug Profile | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
Family: | Seed Bug (Lygaeoidea, Lygaeidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Peaceful Seed Bug (Spilostethus pacificus) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~11mm long. A very orange and black bug which is covered in short, fine hairs. Similar Species: Horehound Bug (Agonoscelis rutila) : Red-banded Seed-eating Bug (Melanerythrus mactans) : Red Eyes Bug (Leptocoris mitellatus) | |||||
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