Beautiful Plant Bug
S1, ventral
Ellura
Pittosporum Bug
Adult, dorsal
 
                      
Pittosporum Bug (Pseudapines geminata)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: True Bugs (Hemiptera)
Family: Stink Bug (Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Pittosporum Bug (Pseudapines geminata)
This Photo:     🔍Adult, dorsal🔎

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
These are quite small bugs. We haven't measured one, but adults are ~7mm long.
Early instars are circular, elongating to an oval shape as they age. 1st instars only have 2 white spots (one on each site), getting more as they molt. Instars are black with white spots/patches and orange antennae, while adults attain some orange/chestnut highlights to the edge of the body. The adult patterns are very consistent between specimens
Underneath, they are very pale, and the legs have a blue tinge to them.

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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.