Grey Big-eyes Bug
S6, ventral, Green
Red-banded Seed-eating Bug
S1, Adult Male, dorsal
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| Grey Big-eyes Bug S6, ventral, Green | | Red-banded Seed-eating Bug S1, Adult Male, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Seed Bug (Lygaeoidea:Lygaeidae) | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Green Seed Bug (Lygaeidae sp)| This Photo: | Profile | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Thank you to Fabien Piednoir for correcting our error with these He said "Lygaeidae have 4 antenna segments; 4-segmented antennae are plesiomorphic feature, not characteristic to Lygaeidae, but rather non-Pentatomoidea Pentatomomorpha : Aradoidea + Lygaeoidea + Pyrrhocoroidea + Coreoidea. Lygaeoidea are actually characterized by the low (4 max) number of wing veins in wing membrane." Similar Species: Brown Senna Bug (Melanacanthus cf scutellaris) Pacific Damsel Bug (Nabis kinbergii) Fury Assassin Bug (Coranus sp) Long Broad-headed Bug (Mutusca brevicornis)
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