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Cotton Stainer Bug

Dysdercus sp.

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Grassland. (1,2 km from point number 6 on the Mlawula nature reserve map)

Species ID Suggestions

Cotton stainer

Dysdercus sp.
stho002
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Comments (5)
pamsai
Thanks stho002, bayucca, tmvdh and kate for puzzling over the ID of this bug...
KateBraun
This is most likely the same species as this one: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/142686065 ... but no advance yet on getting closer than Dysdercus sp.
tmvdh
Hi bayucca, I agree: Definitely Dysdercus - but I've got no idea about the species :-(
bayucca
Pyrrhocoridae, Dysdercus sp. and despite many of the IDs on the web, I am sceptic about all IDs. There are almost no trustable infos about Dysdercus in Southern Africa. See my comment here with a lot of links and discussions (within the links!): http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/128466093
stho002
Similar to these: https://www.flickr.com/photos/24580998@N08/8217882878

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Mlawula Nature Reserve
Mission
Swaziland Guide
Photographed
PublishedMay 21, 2014

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