Brown Shield Bug S3, ventral | Long Gum-tree Shield Bug Adult, dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
Family: | Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Brown Shield Bug (Poecilometis fuscescens) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S5, ventral🔎 | ||||
Thank you Mike Burrell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~17mm long. When identifiying Poecilometis, leg colour, antennae colour & segments, body colour and shoulder spines (or not) are all useful diagnostics. They can have different shades of colour, but generally the patterns are consistent. Notice here the spiny shoulders, pattern of beige blotches on the dark reddish base colour. Legs have pale sections and the antennae generally have orange on one side of the segment joins but not the other. We have found Poecilometis with different antennal segment counts on the specimen, so these can't be relied on completely. | |||||
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