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Rhoecus australasiae from Australia

Posted by danielj January 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am

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Hello!
While traveling to the Daintree Rainforest in Australia, I took a photo of a bug we spotted, and I was wondering if you could help me to identify it. Thanks!
Heather Angel

rhoecus australia Rhoecus australasiae from Australia

Hi Angel,
Ironically, today we received photos of two unknown Hemipterans from Australia. They did not really resemble one another much, but in trying to identify them, we found them to both be in a previously unrepresented family, Tessaratomidae. Bugs in this family resemble Stink Bugs, but are larger with proportionally small heads. Actually, we now believe we received images from this family from Asia years ago, but could not identify them. Your bug is Rhoecus australasiae, and according to a web page we found on the family Tessaratomidae, “This bug feeds on plants in the genus Melicope (previously Euodia). Melicope micrococca is a large tree with trifoliolate leaves native to the Enoggera catchment.”

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