#pentatomoidea

[scpharys]

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[jenfoundabug]

This fine creature is longing to be a potato. Unidentified shield bug (Pentatomoidea) Northern California, US

[ayanos-pl]

枯れ葉をめくったらカメムシの卵がついていた（6月13日）

[pogomcl]

Ornate Shieldbug, Eurydema ornata Canon 7D f/2.8 1/250 iso:500 Prague, CZE 4/28/2020

[fandomchaosposts]

omg Lando the ladybug is so cute!!!!!!! and the photos are so pretty!!!!

also the insect that looked at you funny is called a βρομούσα in Greek I think but I don't know the English name 😢

a collection of photos from the forest adventure

i dragged my shoes which weigh a tonne up a huge hill for this photo so please appreciate it

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. it looked at me funny.

this one is just pretty

another. because my work will not go unnoticed.

lando the ladybird

trees.

i miss him :(

i was up here? how on earth have i managed that when i couldn’t get out of bed 2 days ago

this was me struggling to get up a hill with my chunky platform shoes

[crevicedwelling]

wait, what do you means stinkbugs do parental care?

many but not all species in the Pentatomoidea guard eggs, early instar young, and may stick together as a group when juveniles.

[jonnysinsectcatalogue]

White-Margined Burrower Bug - Sehirus cinctus

This specie deserved a revisit after I accidentally classified it into the wrong family on this blog. I had confused the insect families and superfamilies in my haste. As a clarification so others don't repeat my mistake: the White-Margined Burrower Bug is classified as a Burrower Bug (family Cydnidae); it isn't a Shield Bug (family Acanthosomatidae) despite the similar morphological appearance in the broad strokes. The mix-up presented itself when I blanketed both families within the Superfamily Pentatomoidea on this blog. Fixing the classification problem, I researched this Burrower Bug further and now have a bit more to share from a specimen found in my own backyard (thanks to my mom's camera). Compared to the previous post, this individual is smaller (it may be a male) than the one hiding in the lamb's ear. If I had to guess, I'd say the individuals here are 5mm long or less. With a size so small, they could be easily mistaken for tiny garden Beetles, but a closer look at the images will reveal a distinctly Hemipteran head and wings that fold over themselves instead of becoming concealed by a wing case. Of course, there's the white band that goes all the way around the body, ending at the edge of the pronotum just before the eyes.

When researching this specie, I was surprised to learn how many other species closely resemble it. Insects like the Cow-Wheat Shieldbug (Adomerus biguttatus) or Canthophorus impressus are quite similar (those live either in Europe or Asia). However, the White-Margined Burrower Bug of North America that will always have an unbroken white band around its body. That's first part of its name covered, but what about the "Burrower Bug" part? You see, this Bug is an outlier in its own family: it prefers to live and feed in flowering plants rather than take to the soil to feed. Other members of the Cydnidae family will spend their time on or under the soil, remaining close to plants in order to feed. The Bugs that dig do so using their heads and forelegs (look at species within the genera Cyrtomenus and Dallasiellus for examples of diggers, especially the former). The only burrowing this specie does is when it comes time to laying eggs. This specie will create burrows specifically for depositing eggs and will nourish the hatched nymphs with seeds from mints and sages. From the images I've seen, the adults transport seeds by carrying them under their bodies using their rostrum! After a few days of seed-feeding, the nymphs will strike out on their own and feed on the seeds they can find above ground. If you search for the nymphs, look for rounded form with a deep red color on the abdomen (or abdomens...they like to aggregate, but their feeding doesn't seem to be very destructive). The white margin will not appear until the adult molt.

Picture was taken on May 26, 2019 with a Samsung Galaxy S7. As a patch note, this blog now has a "Random Button" function in the header. If you click on it, there's no telling which insect you'll see next! You can give it a try if you feel lucky.

[ribosome-papers]

Molecular Apomorphies in the Secondary and Tertiary Structures of Length-Variable Regions (LVRs) of 18S rRNA Shed Light on the Systematic Position of the Family Thaumastellidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea)

Pubmed: http://dlvr.it/Sp0Hpg

[fear-the-hippo]

Looked into the “Japanese red bug” a bit more and it seems to actually refer to Parastrachia japonensis, a type of shield bug native to East Asia. The parenting behavior is actually correct according to every source I could find, it’s just that the Japanese Red Bug common name is used by… literally none of the sources I looked at, which explains why you might not have been able to find anything if you were searching with that name.

One thing I can tell you as someone so zoology obsessed is that books, articles, blog posts, any literature at all is highly likely to let you know if an invertebrate or reptile has ever been known to eat its own young but not nearly as likely to admit how many widely beloved mammals will do the same (most of them) or how often (way way more often than the scorpions or snakes)

[rattyexplores]

Nice Photo of Bromocoris Souefi

Bromocoris souefi

01/06/22

[stickalithus]

Shield bug families!

The 5 UK shield bug families can be thought as the 5 points of a shield! Though compared to the approx. 13 families worldwide our island is just a small collection of Pentatomoid Hemipterans (represented here by the green shield bug Palomena prasina).

Enjoy! As per feel free to ask me anything about anything :)

[dendroica]

Green Stink Bug, Chinavia hilaris (by me)

[ayanos-pl]

キマダラカメムシの交尾（5月18日）

[pogomcl]

Red and Black Striped Bug, Graphosoma italica Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/4 1/160 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/30/2010

[ecuadorlife]

Shield-backed bug, Pachycoris torridus, Scutelleridae by Andreas Kay Via Flickr: from Ecuador: www.youtube.com/AndreasKay

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

I never would have believed that this was a Florida predatory stink bug.  I found one earlier in the month but it was small with red and metallic blue-green coloring; this one was a beautiful blue with orange and was three times the size of the previous one.  Guessing that the previous one was simply a nymph.