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Green Grid Stink Bug - Antestiopsis cederwaldi or A. notia
Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Green Grid Stink Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- The stink bug is grass-green in colour with brown-yellow to pale green grid lines on thorax. Head is black with green and yellow lines.
- Above photos were taken Runcorn Wetland next to the Bulimba Creek.
- Nymph
- We found the about nymph on Feb 2012 in Brisbane Koala Bushlands near Tingalpa Creek.
- There is not much information on this bug. Several species of genus Antestiopsis in other part of the world are pests of coffee plants.
- Reference:
- 1. Antestini - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 2. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera – Part II - by Gordon F. Gross, South Australian Government Printer, Adelaide, 1976, p435.
