Shield Bug

Good question anyway, but the answer is also quite simple: Dalmata is according to my quite intense search not a valid common name, at least I did not found any (!) other information about Dalmata in context with a shield bug, besides the mentioned and only one. But I found the same picture on other websites with the same Dalmata ID. I am completely against using names which are not trustable or not validated at least by another (and more or less trustable) source. If there is no common name found I prefer to add the family name like "Scutellerid Bug" or in this case, since we have a simple common name "Shield Bug". Sometimes I also use other terms like, just extrapolated from our example: "Augocoris Shield Bug or "Gomesii Shield Bug". I think that might also be a compromise we sometimes can use. If Juan is providing more info about his Dalmata it would be OK to change again, if not I would keep the simple "Shield Bug".

Cool, Thorsten! Thanks for support! Now, Siggi, we have the ID ready, I suggest: Shield Bug and Augocoris gomesii.

Another specialist I contacted has just confirmed Augocoris gomesii :-).

I would delete "Dalmata", too.

I've just been informed that an examination of the genitalia is necessary to identify the species :-(.

Yes, if Gomesii, than I would prefer Augocoris cf. gomesii and I would delete the Dalmata, until we have more information.

Augocoris seems to be the correct genus, gomesii is still in doubt. Still working on it...

Since we are not sure about this Dalmata story and we do not find any other source than the one I mentioned, I suggest, that we leave the common name just as Shield Bug.

That's the problem with "invented" names, they are now spread all over the net... Once wrongly IDed people are taking the ID over and over...

Hi bayucca, I think "Dalmata" isn't an "official" name for this species, but "invented" for some spottings at PN. I'm working on it...

Scutelleridae, most probably Augocoris sp., unfortunately I did not find a match for the ones from Costa Rica. I did not find any further info about a Dalmata sp. from this one: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17580267 http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110301 https://www.flickr.com/photos/37957896@N03/11993887104 Augocoris gomesii might be a match??? http://www.cahurel-entomologie.com/images_hemipteres/images_hemipteres_maxi/DSC01433.JPG http://www.cahurel-entomologie.com/images_hemipteres/images_hemipteres_maxi/DSC01432.JPG http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110301 Deleted image out of a forum from Guyana: http://www.google.ch/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimg230.imageshack.us%2Fimg230%2F9752%2Faugocorissp3sq.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fguyane-insecte.forumactif.com%2Ft424-augocoris-gomesii-burmeister-1835&h=1525&w=625&tbnid=XGmpYOlsE3MOFM%3A&zoom=1&q=Augocoris&docid=xAvzcgi6GSQn5M&ei=TmOAU_K-KeWe0QWxzoDwCQ&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CFoQMygHMAc&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=11&page=1&start=0&ndsp=17

Hi Sigg, I sent you some PDF files by email. Did you get them?

Hi Sigg, it's a Shield Bug (Family Scutelleridae). No idea about the species, yet. But somehow I've got the feeling that it might be a color morph of Pachycoris torridus... Trying to get closer...