Grey Big-eyes Bug S5, profile | Grey Big-eyes Bug S6, Face | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
Family: | Big-eyes Bug (Lygaeoidea, Geocoridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Grey Big-eyes Bug (Unicageocoris griseus) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S4, Head🔎 | ||||
Thank you Danilo Lüdke for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~4.5mm long. We thought the different coloured bugs shown here (red abdominal marks vs green) may have been a different species. But Danilo considers them to be the same species. We can only assume the colour variation is perhaps due to their food source; or perhaps gender. The green specimens also have have less black on their abdomen. | |||||
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