Spined Citrus Bug - Biprorulus bibax
Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Spined Citrus Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- The adult Spined Citrus Bug is green in colour, with a sharp black spine at each side of its shoulder.
- The Spined Citrus Bug feeds on the fruits of citrus trees. They make considerable damages on the fruits. We found a few of them on the citrus trees in Brisbane Botanic Garden in summer. On those citrus trees we also found the Bronze Orange Bugs which their nymphs are looked similar.
- The nymph bugs are green and orange with black dots in the earliest stages and mainly green
with black dots in the later stages.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Plant bugs - Agriculture, NSW Department of Primary Industries, 19 June 1997 (second edition).
- 3. Citrus in the home garden: common insect pests - Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 2005.
