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Harlequin Bug nymph
Dindymus versicolor
-37.894, 145.311
Field Notes
Description:
A strikingly colourful bug about 20mm long with a black head and deep red eyes. The pronotum is scarlet and the dorsal side of the body graded shades of rosy-red and orange. The lower part of the abdomen and the wing buds are black. There are 3 to 4 raised circular knobs along the the midline of the back of the abdomen. The ventral side appeared to be striped black and white.
The antennae have a white band on the last segment.
Habitat:
New Zealand Mirror Bush ( Coprosma repens)
Notes:
The Coprosma bush had several of these nymphs but they seemed to be aware of any strange movement around them and promptly hid under a leaf.
They appear to be the fifth instar of the harlequin bug and are placed in the superfamily: Pyrrhocoroidea.
Some websites refer to them as the nymphs of firebugs.
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