Pale Spotted Mirid
S1, close up
Ellura
Hairy Large-eyed Mirid Bug
Dorsal
 
                      
Pale Spotted Mirid (Metopocoris sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: True Bugs (Hemiptera)
Family: Jumping Tree Bug (Cimicomorpha, Miridae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Pale Spotted Mirid (Metopocoris sp)
This Photo:     🔍S1, ventral🔎

Thank you Danilo Lüdke for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6mm long, 4 segment antennae.
Danilo highlighted it looked a lot like Metopocoris cassiae. But it seems it's too small and the pronotum is quite dark, so possibly an undescribed species.

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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.