- This page is the Quick Field Guide of Stink Bugs found in Brisbane. This
includes most of the common species found in Brisbane near-by area and South
East Queensland, Australia.
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Burrower Bug
- Adrisa sp. - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Burrower in soil, feed on roots, fallen stems and seeds.
Eggs laid on soil.
- Habitat : Forest ground
- Status : Fairy common but hard to found
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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Bronze Orange Bug -
Musgraveia sulciventris - Body length : 25mm
- Habits : Slow moving, stay at the same spot for days. Eggs laid
on leaves of host plant.
- Habitat : Citrus plants (oranges, lemons and limes etc.)
- Status : Common, minor pest in garden and commercial
orchards.
- We found them at : Citrus plants in gardens and backyards.
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Cotton
Harlequin Bug - Tectocoris diophthalmus - Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Feed on young shoots. Eggs laid on stem, female guards
eggs.
- Habitat : Suck juice from hibiscus and cotton, plants of family
Malvaceae.
- Status : Common
- We found them at : Gardens and backyards
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Metallic Shield Bug
-Scutiphora pedicellata- Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Feed on vegetable, garden plants, trees and fruits.
- Habitat : Found on leaf letter or under bark.
- Status : We saw the bug once.
- We found them at : Yugarapul Park
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Green Jewel Bug -
Lampromicra senator- Body length : 10mm
- Habits : relatively good flier
- Habitat : Not known
- Status : We saw the bug once.
- We found them at : Brisbane Botanic Garden
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Ground Shield Bug -
Choerocoris paganus- Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Run quickly on floor.
- Habitat : Ground in rainforest
- Status : We saw the bug once.
- We found them at : Mt Nebo
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Glossy Shield Bug -
Cermatulus nasalis - Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Predator of soft- body insects, including caterpillars.
Eggs laid on leaves.
- Habitat : Gardens and forests
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Macgorger Bushland and Alexandra Hill
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Spined Predatory Shield Bug -
Oechalia schellenbergii- Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Feed with piercing-sucking mouthparts on caterpillars
and other soft body insects
- Habitat : Gardens and forests
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Brisbane Botanic Garden and Karawatha Forest
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Yellow
Predatory Shield bug - Amyotea hamata - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Predatory
- Habitat : Bushland
- Status : We saw this bug once.
- We found them at : Wishart bushland
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Green Stink Bug -
Plautia affinis - Body length : 10mm
- Habits : Feeds on plants
- Habitat : Feeds on different of crops
- Status : Pest on stone fruits, mulberries, grapes and vegetables
such as beans and tomatoes
- We found them at : Wishart bushland on Wild Tobacco
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Orange Black Stink Bug -
Novatilla virgata- Body length : 10mm
- Habits : Wandering on grasses
- Habitat : No known
- Status : We found this bug once.
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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Acacia Shield
bug -
Alcaeus varicornis- Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Slow moving on Acacia tree trunks.
- Habitat : Eucalypt forest
- Status : Locally common
- We found them at : Alexandra Hill and Bulimba Creek in Wishart.
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Brown Shield Bug -
Dippilana membranacea - Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Rest on leaf, fly away when disturbed.
- Habitat : Found on leaf of different plants
- Status : Common
- We found them at : Most Eucalypt forests and rainforests
-
Gum Tree Shield Bug -
Theseus modestus - Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Slow moving, feed on tree trunk, eggs laid under bark.
- Habitat : On gum tree trunk
- Status : Common
- We found them at : Most Eucalypt forests
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Common Gum Tree Shield Bug -
Poecilometis patruelis- Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Feed on tree trunk, eggs laid under bark.
- Habitat : On gum tree trunk
- Status : Very common
- We found them at : Most Eucalypt forests
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Zebra Gum Tree Shield Bug -
Poecilometis histricus- Body length : 25mm
- Habits : Rest on tree trunk, fly away when disturbed.
- Habitat : Found on gum tree trunks and Monkey Rope
- Status : Common
- We found them at : Macgregor and Wishart bushland
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Two-dots Gum Tree Shield Bug -
Poecilometis parilis- Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Rest on tree trunk or on leaf, fly away when disturbed.
- Habitat : On smooth-bark gum tree trunks
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Most Eucalypt forests
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Banksias Shield Bug -
Poecilometis eximius - Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Active flyer
- Habitat : Found on Banksias leaf and trunk
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Alexandra Hill and most Eucalypt forests
-
Golden Brown Shield Bug -
Anchises parvulus- Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Female guards her young on a gum leaf
- Habitat : Found on different kinds of gum trees
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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Zebra Shield Bug -
Bathrus variegatus- Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Rest on leaf
- Habitat : Not known
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Bulimba Creek in Yugarapul
Park
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Metallic Green Shield Bug -
Accarana metallica - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Not known
- Habitat : Not known
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
-
Brown Long-headed Shield
Bug - Austromalaya reticulat- Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Not known
- Habitat : Not known
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest, Wishart
near the Bulimba Creek
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Toad Stink Bug -
Platycoris (Hypogomphus) bipunctatus - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Large number found on gum tree trunks
- Habitat : Rainforest
- Status : Local common
- We found them at : Mt Nebo
-
Green Vegetable Bug -
Nezara viridula - Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Active in summer, hide in shelter in winter.
- Habitat : Found on on tomatoes and other vegetables.
- Status : Introduced species and a wide spread pest.
- We found them at : Gardens and backyards
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Spined Citrus Bug -
Biprorulus bibax- Body length : 20mm
- Habits : Slow moving on plants
- Habitat : Feed on the fruits of citrus trees
- Status : Pest of Citrus Industry
- We found them at : Brisbane Botanic Garden
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Red Green Spined Stink Bug -
Morna florens- Body length : 10mm
- Habits : When disturbed, the bug drops onto the ground and
play dead.
- Habitat : Find on Pine trees
- Status : Local common
- We found them at : Wishart bushland
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Wild Tobacco Spined Bug -
Cuspicona forticornis - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Slow moving on plants
- Habitat : Feed on Wild Tobacco
- Status : Common
- We found them at : Along Bulimba Creek
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Green Potato Bug -
Cuspicona simplex - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Slow moving on plants
- Habitat : Feed on Wild Tobacco, tomatoes and potatoes
- Status : Common but not considered as serious pest.
- We found them at : Gardens and Bushes
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Blue
Spined Bug - Cuspicona sp.- Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Unknown
- Habitat : Unknown
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Daisy Hill
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She-oak
Stink Bug - Diaphyta pulchra- Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Good flier
- Habitat : Host plants She-oak pine trees (Casuarina sp.
or Allocasuarina sp.).
- Status : rare
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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Phyllota
Stink Bug - Ocirrhoe dallasi- Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Poor flier
- Habitat : Host plants Phyllota phylicoides.
- Status : rare
- We found them at : Carbrook Wetland
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Yellow-dotted Gum Tree Bug -
Notius consputus- Body length : 15mm
- Habits : Found walk slowly up the tree during later
afternoon.
- Habitat : On large smooth bark gum tree trunks
- Status : Found twice on the same place.
- We found them at : Wishart Bushland
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Horehound bug -
Agonoscelis rutila- Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Swarms on host plants but normally causes little
injury.
- Habitat : Usually found on the weed horehound
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Brisbane Botanic Garden
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Dry Nut Stink Bug -
Spermatodes parvus- Body length : 10
- Habits : Hide on gum leaves, not move even disturbed.
- Habitat : Unknown
- Status : We found this bug once.
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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Yellow Brown Stink Bug -
Aspideurus flavescens - Body length : 12mm
- Habits : Large number found on host plants
- Habitat : Associated with Buckinghamia sp. and Gossypium
sp.
- Status : Locally common
- We found them at : Sunny Bank Bushland
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Small Brown Stink Bug -
Caystrus pallidolimbatus - Body length : 8mm
- Habits : Slow moving, laid eggs on grasses.
- Habitat : Found on tall grasses.
- Status : Fairy common
- We found them at : Bulimba Creek in Macgregor Bushland
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Small Brown GumTree Bug -
Protestrica stali- Body length : 8mm
- Habits : Unknown
- Habitat : Found on Smooth Bark and Scribbles Bark Gum Trees.
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Alexandra Hill and Karawatha Forest
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Small Acacia Stink Bug -
Eufroggattia tuberculata - Body length : 5mm
- Habits : Unknown
- Habitat : Found on Acacia
- Status : Uncommon
- We found them at : Karawatha Forest
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 508.
- 2. PENTATOMOIDEA
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Australia, 2002.
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