Broad Headed Bugs - Family Alydidae
Alydids have large broad triangular head, nearly as wide as the thorax. They are usually brown in colour. Their bodies are relatively slender. They have long 4-segmented antenna and long legs. Some of them feed on fallen pods from Acacia trees and pods of other trees. Some species with their nymphs mimic ants.
- Pod-Sucking Bug, Brown Bean Bug
- Riptortus serripes, instars 10-25mm, adult body length 25mm
- This Pod-Sucking Bug is brown in colour with yellow lines along body and has strong spiny hind legs. Its body is slim and narrower in the middle, with a sharp spine on each side of the thorax. Young instars mimic ants. We have detail information in this page.
- Paddy Bug, Rice Bug
- Leptocorisa acuta, body length 15mm
- We found a few of this bugs along Bulimba Creek in Brisbane during summer season. The bugs are pale yellow-brown in colour, with long slender body. They feed on grass, and are pest of rice. More information and pictures please click on here.
- Brown Bean Bug
- Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
- Melanacanthus scutellaris, body length 15mm.
- Colourful Board-headed Bug
- Noliphus erythrocephalus, body length 20mm
- This bugs was found in Yugarapul Park during early summer. The bug has yellow and pink colours on abdomen with black bars on both sides. Its legs are green in colour. There are spins on its thorax.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 504.
- 2. Alydidae, Bean bugs, Broad-headed bugs - Discover Life, 2008.
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