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Black Stink Bug

Coptosoma sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Pentatomoidea, Plataspidae, Plataspinae

Habitat:

in a garden of MSC Institute of Technology located in San Gabriel, San Pablo City, Philippines - a semi-agricultural area

Notes:

I found this bug (with 5 flies(?) on top) on dillweed.

Species ID Suggestions

Black Stink Bug

Coptosoma xanthogramma

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Leuba Ridgway
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Comments (5)
Machi
I would guess that they will lay their eggs in it and not parasitize the bug themselves
thaptor
Yes, the small insects look like parasitic wasps - they are not Flies. If they are up to parasitize the bug I doubt, somehow. I am not aware of parasitation by wasps in the adult stage (occurrs in parasitic flies, however).
Machi
Maybe they are some species of parasitic wasp?
Leuba Ridgway
Might be best to leave it as Coptosoma sp. Just had a look at a fellow project member's http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/16958941

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PublishedNovember 20, 2016

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