Horned Coreid Bug - Cletus sp.

Family Coreidae, tribe Gonocerini

This page contains pictures and information about Horned Coreid Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.


Body length 12mm

We found a few of them actively flying around near the water edge of a lagoon in Karawatha Forest during later summer Feb 2008. The bugs were horned at the shoulder and orange brown in colour.



The bugs were actively flying from one plant to another plants near the water edge of the lagoon.



We saw this bug a few time there and not the other place.



On Mar 2011 in Carbrook Wetland, we found three Horned Coreid Bugs. Two were mating and one feeding on white flowers.



Reference:
1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 504.
2. 半翅目 Order Hemiptera(True Bugs) - 六足王國─台灣的昆蟲 Insects of Taiwan, 2008.

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