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lychee giant stink bug

Tessaratoma papillosa

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Field Notes

Description:

About 40mm in lenght with elongate body is one of the largest shield bugs, light brown at back and white abdomen, small and triangular head with red eyes, antennae with 4 segments, triangular scutellum.
Like all hemipterans possess a piercing-sucking mouthpart for feeding.

Habitat:

Spotted at Uluwatu, coastal area, Bali.

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
Family: Tessaratomidae
Genus: Tessaratoma papillosa

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