Sharp Shield Bug: S2, Female, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Sharp Shield Bug (Kapunda troughtoni)

This Photo:

S2, Female, ventral

Thank you Dr Mallik Malipatil for identifying and Danilo Lüdke (lehelind) 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
From ~4.5mm to ~6mm long.
This genus has a distinctively blunt snout for a shield bug; with relatively short antennae that come from under the snout, not the side or front like most others.

This species is

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

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