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Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

This bug was only 4 or 5 mm long. It was a deep borwn with white markings. Eyes and legs were red. Antennae had 5 segments. the last natennal segment could have had white markings.

Habitat:

Spotted under bright lights near a national park and suburban gardens.

Notes:

This is the smallest bug I've seen and I need to find an ID. Thanks to bayucca for suggestions - have to investigate further- antennal segments in this bug are 5, as opposed to 4 in Lygaeid bugs.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
bayucca
Welcome. Getting down at least to the correct family would help a lot, but I have no clue even for the family...
Leuba Ridgway
bayucca, I always appreciate your help and thoroughness - thanks so much. I will go through all your suggestions. This is definitely going to be a lesson for me on these bugs ! Thanks again.
bayucca
I would agree with Pentatomorpha, but I am sceptic about Pentatomidae and even Pentatomoidea. In my eyes I think it might be a Lygaeoidea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygaeoidea There you see many families with many very similar ones. I did not found a reasonable match looking for common families in Australia like Lygaeidae and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyparochromidae (which were formerly classified as a subfamily of Lygaeidae). Just some example for illustration: http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:591f5014-991d-4373-8af6-6606cd9ec83b#tab_gallery http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=198240 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygaeidae http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/136116/6786 The pronotum seen not looking like yours. Sorry, I cannot help you more...

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PublishedJanuary 28, 2014

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