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- This page contains pictures and information about Big-eyed Bugs in Family Geocoridae
that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Bugs in this family have separated and very big eyes. They are commonly called
Big-eyed Bugs. They are small in size. They have either elongate, elongate-ovoid or oval body. They
are seed feeders but also known to be predaceous. This group of geocorid
bugs were put as
the subfamily of the Lygaeidae. They are raised to family level in 1997.
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- Red Big-eyed Bug
 
- Geocoris sp., body length 5mm
- The bug nymph was found hiding under gum tree bark, in Karawatha Forest
Sep 2008.
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- Black Big-eyed Bug
 - Geocoris sp., body length 5mm
- We found this small seed bug on gum tree trunk on July 2010 in Parkinson
Park.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 499.
- 2. Family
Geocoridae
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Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts,
2002.
- 3. Terrestrial
Invertebrate Status Review (Brisbane City) - Dr John Stanisic,
Queensland Museum, 2005, page 61, 63.
- 4. Revision of Australian
Geocoris Fallén and Stylogeocoris Montandon (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Geocorinae) - Malipatil, M.B., Invertebrate Taxonomy, Volume 8 Number 2 1994.
- 5. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
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