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Slender Rice Bug
Cletus trigonus
15.456, 119.921
Field Notes
Description:
Coreidae; Corinae; Gonocerini; Cletus; Cletus trigonus Thunberg, 1783. The two bugs shown here are much smaller than the C. trigonus I am used to seeing around our vegetables. So I think it is safe to say that they are juveniles. There are several spottings of Cletus trigonus from Project Noah contributors in Philippines. At least two of the spottings that I read gave perfectly good descriptions of this bug - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1663771399
and
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/24623029
If I had to pick out, from these spottings, the most important identifying features which would give immediate recognition of this bug, they would be 1. the three white spots & 2. the "shoulder horns".
Habitat:
These two Cletus trigonus were spotted on Eggplant (Solanum melongena) locally known as Talong, in our vegetable plot.
Notes:
Distribution in Philippines is confirmed in http://coreoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/editTaxon/Distribution/ShowDist…
Plant identification - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Talong.html#:~:text=Talong%20is%20a%20coar….
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