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Family Pentatomidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Green Potato Bugs that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- The bug is bright green in colour. Its head is round apically. On the
shoulder there is the small black tipped spine. The bugs feed on solanaceous
plants especially the genus Solanum, which includes potatoes, tomatoes and
wild tobacco.
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- The bugs were found on the weedy plant Solanacea (nightshades).
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- Some of them were found on Wild
Tobacco Solanum mauritianum. This bug also feeds on tomatoes and potatoes but unlike the Green Vegetable Bug, it is
not considered as serious pest.
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Nymph
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- 3rd instars
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- The photo shows a Green Potato Bug nymph and a ladybird
beetle.
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- Reference:
- 1. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Cuspicona Dallas, 1851 - by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002
- 3. Cuspicona simplex Walker, 1867 - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australia 2005.
- 4. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera-Part II - Gross,
G.F. (1976).
Adelaide: A.B. James, p481.
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