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Green Grid Stink Bug
Antestiopsis notia
-6.75, 107.017
Field Notes
Description:
Body length 10mm, grass-green in colour with yellow grid lines on thorax, with two red patches that contains black spots that resembles a face. Head with green and yellow lines.
Habitat:
Spotted during a day walk at Kebun Raya Cibodas, a 80ha area above 1.400 metres high, mix of botanical park with big trees & palms and surrounded by rainforest at the foot of Gene volcano, Java - Indonesia.
Notes:
They feed on flowers, berries and growing tips, injecting a toxic saliva that often contains the spores of the Ashbya fungus, and then suck juices out.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Genus: Antestiopsis
Reference Links:
Antestiopsis - Wikipedia
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PublishedDecember 3, 2017
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