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Wow! Metallic beauty Stinkbug, Philippines, Mattiphus sp.,



Another... from the Philippines - no I.D.


John K.

Coridae sp. - Philippines


Malaysia, Cameron Highlands, no I.D.,


John K.

Another appropriately named Stinkbug from S. Korea - Pentatoma metallifera


A Strikingly colored bug - Reduvidae sp. from the Philippines


John K.

boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:34 pm Coridae sp. - Philippines
Malaysia, Cameron Highlands, no I.D.,...

Both species possibly Prionolomia spp., or a closely related genus.

Two weird bugs from Ecuador

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boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:51 pm A Strikingly colored bug - Reduvidae sp. from the Philippines...

That might be the most unusual looking reduviid I've ever seen!

Very cool leaf-footed bugs From Ecuador,

Diactor flavolineata


& also D. bilineatus


John K.

Another neat leaf-footed bug... unknown location or I.D.,


John K.

boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:20 pm Another neat leaf-footed bug... unknown location or I.D.,...

Looks like Anisoscelis foliaceus, or at least in the same genus.

There are some quite impressive, large/colorful coreid bugs in the US, such as Thasus neocalifornicus -



Nymphs of this species -



Nymphs of Thasus acutangulus, from Mexico -

Beautiful "bugs" indeed! Those nymphs are living, walking kaleidoscopes... just stunning! Thanks for posting!

John K.

boghaunter1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:41 pm Beautiful "bugs" indeed! Those nymphs are living, walking kaleidoscopes... just stunning! Thanks for posting!

John K.

Warning coloration to predators, I assume. Many plant-feeding Hemiptera produce foul-tasting fluids.

A couple of my own photos from Southern AZ! Taken many years ago. I used to have some nice images showing groupings of them on their host plants but can't find them now.

Thasus neocalifornicus (species already shown by livingplanet3)

Ahhhh.... southern Arizona bug hunting.... hopefully one day! TFP! (Thx. for posting).

John K.

We have a long thin scarlet Hemipteran here, very common around my house in April. I will try to remember to take photos.

Adam.

World's largest Hemipteran -this specimen's asking price a number of years ago was $250.00 USD. I really regret not having purchased it outright! About 5 years ago another 125mm specimen (from French Guiana) went on auction on ebay & final price topped out at around $550.00 USD! I already had a couple of older specimens measuring 105 & 110 mm in body length. I spread the wings out on the larger specimen & they span between 8-9 inches! (203 - 230mm). Truly monster bugs!

Lethocerus maximus - Peru -126mm (just shy of 5 inches!)


John Kozial

Another couple of really bizarre (pretty? ) Hemipterans from Ecuador,


John K.

The "Picasso bug" (Sphaerocoris annulus), quite variable in its markings, and found across a wide area of tropical / subtropical Africa -

This iridescent green species in family Scutellaridae is quite common here:

https://www.thaibugs.com/wp-content/gal ... era%29.jpg

Adam.

We do have two of the largest stinkbugs in North America here at my home Loxa flavicollis and Alcaeorrhynchus grandis. I published about a few of these back around 2010, reporting Loxa flavicollis (Drury, 1773) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) a new invasive stink bug in Louisiana.

For many decades I placed hundreds of thousands of assorted uncurated hemiptera in jars of 70% Isopropyl alcohol Here e,g are 11,000+ speciimens in alcohol. I did this to allow future workers to have the benefit of these specimens that I could not process by pinning and labeling, the only alternative being discarding these captured daily. Some of these bycatch were pinned and labeled on an irregular basis. Out target insects were lepidoptera of which we pinned spread labeled and determined hundreds of thousands of adults over the past 55+ years See attached one box of thousands of Louisiana lepidoptera placed in museums.