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- We found two species of this tribe in Brisbane.
Genera Plautia
- Green Stink Bug
 - Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
- Plautia affinis, body length 10mm
- The bug is mainly green with brown forewings. This bug is also
considered as pest on stone fruits, mulberries, grapes and vegetables such as
beans and tomatoes.
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Genera Novatilla
- Stink Bug
 - Novatilla virgata, body length 10mm
- We saw this bug once during mid summer in Karawatha Forest. It was wandering
on grasses. The small bug has the eye-catching colour patterns, with orange
and white strips on black.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 508.
- 2. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys,
Australian Museum online 2003.
- 3. .
- 4. Genera
of Pentatomidae - The University of Queensland Insect Collection, 2004
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