Grain Bug: Dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Seed Bug (Lygaeoidea, Rhyparochromidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Grain Bug (Remaudiereana inornata)

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
~4.5mm long.
Note the strong/bulbous front legs, with ventral spines on the thigh. The lack of spines on the fore tibia is diagnostic.
The strong legs are surprising, as these would typically be associated with a predator. However these are known as granivores & herbivores; so the strong legs must be associated with a different activity. Perhaps associated with the hard seed shells they feed on (prying open?).

This species is

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

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