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Giant Stink Bug ♀
Pygoplatys longiceps
14.16, 121.23
Field Notes
Description:
Giant Stink Bug laying eggs. Reddish, about 20mm in length. Pygoplatys longiceps (Tessaratomidae, Tessaratominae).
Tessaratomidae is a family of true bugs. Tessaratomids resemble large stink bugs (family Pentatomidae) and are sometimes quite colorful. Most tessaratomids are Old World, with only three species known from the Neotropics. Some members of Tessaratomidae exhibit maternal care of eggs and offspring. Larger species of Tessaratomidae are known informally as Giant Shield Bugs, Giant Stink Bugs, or Inflated Stink Bugs, but they generally do not have a collective common name and are referred to mostly as Tessaratomids.
Habitat:
Makiling Botanic Gardens, a forest park of the Mt. Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems (adjacent or within the UPLB-College of Forestry and Natural Resources), University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna.
Notes:
Reference:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/244246007
Compare with female Pygoplatys pluotae: http://www.heteroptera.fr/tessite/Pygoplatys/P.pluotae.html.
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