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Dry Nut Stink Bug - Spermatodes parvus
Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Dry Nut Stink Bug that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 10mm
- We found this bug once in Karawatha Forest during late summer. It was hiding on a dry stem tip among dry leaves and hard to be noticed.
- The bug is brown in colour. It has a very large scutellum which covered almost all its back. There are the recess areas on each side of its back.
- The bug did not move a bit even we came very close to take those pictures.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Spermatodes - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 3. Spermatodes Bergroth, 1914 - by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002
- 4. Spermatodes grossi - McDonald, F.J.D. (1989). Spermatodes grossi sp. n. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) from Australia. J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 28: 291-293 [292].
