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Family
Pentatomidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Small Brown Gum Tree Bugs in Subfamily Podopinae that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 6mm
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- The bug is small in size and dark brown in colour. Its U-shaped
scutellum covered up to abdomen tip.
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- We first found this bug on gum tree trunk in Alexandra Hill during early
summer 2004. In a hot summer day 2005 in Karawatha Forest , we found the bug again. It was attacking by
ants on a gum tree trunk.
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- On early summer Oct 2007, we found this bug again wandering on a gum tree
trunk near Bulimba Creek in Wishart.
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- This bug was found on Smooth Bark and Scribbles Bark Gum Trees.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Protestrica
Schouteden, 1905
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and
Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 3. Protestrica Schouteden 1905 - by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002.
- 4. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera-Part
I - Gross, G.F. (1975).
Adelaide: A.B. James, p143.
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