Leaf Footed Bug from South Africa might be Giant Twig Wilter

danielj

January 18th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Categories

You guessed it… I can’t identify a bug…
Hello bug man!
I’m from Johannesburg, South Africa and I have hundreds of these bugs in a single bush in my garden (but nowhere else) They don’t seem to be damaging the plant but they’re sure freaky looking. Most of them have eye-markings on their backs, but some of them look different. Any idea what they are and whether they’re dangerous? Thanks!
Andrew

hemipteran south africa Leaf Footed Bug from South Africa might be Giant Twig Wilter hemipteran nymph south afri Leaf Footed Bug from South Africa might be Giant Twig Wilter

Hi Andrew,
You have adult and wingless immature nymphs of some species of Leaf Footed Bug in the family Coreidae. They suck plant juices and give off an odor when disturbed.

Update: (02/12/2008)
While researching the Millipede Assassin Bug image that we just received, we believe we have stumbled onto the correct identification of this Coreid, probably the Giant Twig Wilter, Carlisis wahlbergi.

add Leaf Footed Bug from South Africa might be Giant Twig Wilter

I like This

Trackbacks & Pingbacks 2

From Giant Twig Wilter from South Africa: Adult and Nymphs | What's That Bug? on 01 May 2010 at 11:05 pm ¶
[...] 15 cm. Habitat: Bushveld and gardens.” This exactly matches our own identification in January 2007. Alas, the link we used to identify it is no longer active. Like [...]
From Log In | What's That Bug? on 21 Mar 2011 at 10:16 am ¶
[...] in the family Coreidae, and in South Africa and Australia, they are commonly called Twig Wilters. We have received images of this species before from South Africa, and we tentatively identified them as Carlisis wahlbergi, though the link we provided appears to [...]