Forward-spined Shield Bug Head & Spine | Spined Predatory Shield Bug Adult, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
Family: | Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Forward-spined Shield Bug (Neagenor transcontinentalis) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Ventral🔎 | ||||
Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line 1st Atlas record since 1909: We are really VERY excited While we love helping people and discovering the wildlife we have around us, moments like this are like the gold nugget to the prospector. In our recent pit trapping adventure we found a shield bug, a Neagenor sp of some sort. Only 2 records on Atlas, with 2 photo's of a dead specimen from 1909, which Gross eludes to in his 1971 description. | |||||
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