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Family Pentatomidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Red Green Spined Stink Bugs that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 10mm
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- This is one of the few insects that we found in mid-winter. This little
green bug was hiding between the pine leaves. We found few of them easily on
the same pine tree in Wishart bushland.
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- The bugs are green colour with red
spots on their head and back. They have the sharp spiny shoulder. When disturbed, the bug drops onto the ground and
play dead. So we
took its bottom picture
easily. Its bottom is even more colourful, with
green, orange, yellow and white patterns. After a while, it quickly moved away
and hided under the dry leaf.
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- The bug can be found on pine trees and She-oak pine tree (Casuarina sp.)
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- Their eggs ?
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- We found this eggs on She-oak pine in Carbrook Wetland on Nov 2010. We
think they are the Red Green Spined Stink Bug's eggs but not exactly sure.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Morna Stål, 1867 - by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002
- 3. Morna florens (Walker, 1867) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 4. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera-Part II - Gross,
G.F. (1976).
Adelaide: A.B. James, p491.
- 5. Morna
florens - Department of Entomology, North Dakota State
University.
- 6. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, plate 3L.
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