Giant Shield Bug Nymph (Tessaratomidae)

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Photo by JordiPrats

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

About 40mm in size, 2 big red eyes surrounded by a white line, acid green colour with a discontinued white line at shield perimeter, white antennae with black at top end.

Habitat:

Spotted at Tanjung Puting National Park (Tropical forest) - Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesia.

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
Family: Tessaratomidae