Small Snouted Stink Bug
S1, profile
Small Snouted Stink Bug
S1, Head
| Small Snouted Stink Bug S1, profile | | Small Snouted Stink Bug S1, Head | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
| Family: | Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Small Snouted Stink Bug (Kalkadoona sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S3, Antenna & Head🔎 | ||||
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 ~5.5mm long. It seems with some inverts, size does matter! We thought this might be a smaller specimen of Kalkadoona enchylaenae, but Danilo said "It's somehow also close to K. confinis as particularly the description of the black portions fits well. But the antennal segments 2 & 3 are indeed of almost equal length as you said. If the two forms are really closely related, even mating is possible." Three photographed in Jan, Feb & Mar. | |||||
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