Forward-spined Shield Bug
Dorsal
Riverland
Forward-spined Shield Bug
Head & Spine
 
                      
Forward-spined Shield Bug (Neagenor transcontinentalis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: True Bugs (Hemiptera)
Family: Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Forward-spined Shield Bug (Neagenor transcontinentalis)
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Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line
1st Atlas record since 1909
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We are really VERY excited
While we love helping people and discovering the wildlife we have around us, moments like this are like the gold nugget to the prospector.
In our recent pit trapping adventure we found a shield bug, a Neagenor sp of some sort.
Only 2 records on Atlas, with 2 photo's of a dead specimen from 1909, which Gross eludes to in his 1971 description.

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Oct-2019
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.