Large Snouted Stink Bug
Head
Ellura
Small Snouted Stink Bug
S1, dorsal
 
                      
Large Snouted Stink Bug (Kalkadoona enchylaenae)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: True Bugs (Hemiptera)
Family: Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Large Snouted Stink Bug (Kalkadoona enchylaenae)
This Photo:     Ventral

Thank you Danilo Lüdke for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
~7.5mm long. You can see here the "spots" are actually dark coloured punctuations in the exoskeleton.
Danilo said "It leaves me with some very tiny doubts about K. confinis (length of 2nd antennal segment, shape of the anterolateral margin of the pronotum, coloring of the connexivum).
But as Gross himself doubted and ended up considering the big and dark ones as enchylaenae and the small and pale ones as confinis, we can do the same as your specimen matches the key and is dark and over 7 mm :)"
Imaged 2 in Jan & Oct.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 13-Oct-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.