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Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Toad Stink Bug in genera
Platycoris that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 12mm
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- There is eight Australian species in Genera
Platycoris. We found one species in Brisbane.
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- We found this bug in rainforest near Mt Nebo during late summer. We found
a few of them on large gum tree trunk during the day. Some found resting on leaf.
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- We call them Toad Stink Bug because we found on the internet, Murray
Fletcher called a Hypogomphus sp., "Toad Stink Bug". We
agreed that this common name is also suitable for the stink bug that we just
found.
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- The stink bug has a round and thick body, brown in colour with typical
stick bug colour pattern. Its antennae are five-segmented. Its thorax
surface is rough, resembles the toad skin.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 509.
- 2. FaunaKeys -
Stink
Bugs of Australia, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. Platycoris
bipunctatus - Australian Biological Resources Study,
Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
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