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Family Pentatomidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Phyllota Stink Bugs that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- We found a few of these stink bugs on the flowering Phyllota phylicoides
in Carbrook Wetland on Sep 2009.
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- The stink bug is brown in colour with olive-green thorax and
greenish-brown head. The scutellum
is brown with creamy white tip. The shoulder is round without
spin.
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- The bugs were slow moving. When heavily disturbed, they walked slowly to
the top of the plant, opened its wings and slowly flied to another host
plant one to two meters away.
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- We noticed one of them was paler in colour, otherwise look the same. It
walked freely and did not like just came out from last moulting. It could be
the female, but not so sure.
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Host Plant
 
 - Phyllota phylicoides, Fabaceae
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- There were quite a number of these sting bugs found on the host plant,
while the plants were flowering. There were different species of insect
visiting the plants too.
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- Reference:
- 1. Occirrhoe dallasi
(shield bug) - ICDB Specimen Images, Western Australian Department of Agriculture.
- 2. Phyllota phylicoides - Wild
Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, 2003, p81.
- 3. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 4. Species
Ocirrhoe dallasi Gross, 1975 - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources
Study, 2008.
- 5. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera – Part II - by Gordon F. Gross, South Australian Government Printer, Adelaide,
1976, p456.
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