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Brown Stink Bug - Oncocoris apicalis
Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Brown Shield Bug that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- This stink bug is relative small in size. Its body background is yellow with reddish-brown punctuations. The head is somewhat rectangular in shape as the anteclypeus almost as long as juga. Antennae are in five segments.
- When we found the sting bug, there was a small stink bug instars next to it. It seemed that the adult sting bug was providing the parental guarding. But we were not sure if they were the same species.
- The photos were taken in Anstead Forest on Oct 2009. We saw this bug only once.
- We found this bug again on Feb 2010 in Anstead Forest.
- Also found this bug in Buhot Creek Circuit on Mar 2012.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 3. Genus Oncocoris Mayr, 1866 - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 3. Insect Reference Collection Database - Department of Agriculture Western Australia.
- 4. Revision of the genus Oncocoris Mayr (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) - McDonald, F.J.D. & Edwards, P.B. 1978. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series.
- 5. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera – Part II - by Gordon F. Gross, South Australian Government Printer, Adelaide, 1976, p382.
