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Field Notes

Habitat:

Rocky slope in a gorge, brushwood vegetation, under heavy foraging.

Notes:

I believe that it belongs to the Coreidae family, Heteroptera

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
Thanasis Samaras
I'm so inexperienced with heteropteta... I'll definately look more into it! Thanks for the help! Greets to the very beautiful Switzerland!
bayucca
In my eyes Strictus has one black segment more on the antenna.
Thanasis Samaras
Maybe it could be a Holcostethus strictus? http://eol.org/pages/3685451/overview It has been officially to exist in a nearby wetland! Thanks again for your help!
bayucca
Try Pentatomidae. Just some examples of Stink Bugs. Quite a nice match, but your legs are darker, maybe too dark for Albipes. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holcostethus_albipes http://www.google.ch/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Pentatomidae_-_Holcostethus_albipes.JPG&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holcostethus_albipes&h=768&w=1024&tbnid=z4YNXcA-uci6LM:&zoom=1&q=pentatomidae+of+greece&docid=55i7aYu11EoCDM&hl=de&ei=CrK1U82EEKmV7Abi5oDQBA&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CEEQMygbMBs http://www.coudouliere.fr/insectes/holcostethus-albipes.html Color of the legs and color and segmentation of the antennae are important and probably the only issue of your bug we can follow...
Thanasis Samaras
@bayucca Thank you very much for your interest. Unfortunately I have no other photo. The insect after a couple of shots disappeared!
bayucca
Any other picture to see the shape of the bug? I would also say Coreidae, but may also be Pentatomidae.

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Biodiversity of Fauna in Crete
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