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Green potato bug

Cuspicona simplex

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

About 14mm long. Wing buds as on 4th instar?

Habitat:

On Kangaroo Apple - Solanum aviculare in a local nature reserve.

Notes:

I think this is the penultimate instar. The Kangaroo apples are verging on ripeness (they are edible for humans when red) <br>
http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/show_species.cgi?find_this=Cuspic… <br>
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:30…

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Green Potato Bug - Cuspicona simplex

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