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Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Spined Predatory Shield Bugs that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 15mm
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- The above picture taken in Brisbane Botanic Garden on early winter. It was on a leaf with
leaf-mining pattern. It seemed to us that it was looking for the leaf-mining
insect. The bugs feed with piercing-sucking mouthparts on caterpillars and
other soft body insects.
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- The Spined Predatory Shield Bug is also a common predator of the Leaf
Beetle larvae. In mid-summer, we saw a young gum tree in Karawatha Forest
which was heavily infected by the Leaf Beetle Larvae. However, near every
group of feeding beetle larvae, there was a Spined Predatory Shield Bug
attacking them.
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- Their eggs are black in colour and are usually laid in
multiples of 14. The nymphs are dark red and brown in colour.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 509.
- 2. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys,
Australian Museum online 2003.
- 3. Glossy
shield bug - Insects Identification and
Information Guide, Australian Cotton CRC, 2004.
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