Wilted-tip-mimicking Bug - Amorbus rhombifer
Family Coreidae
This page contains pictures and information about Wilted-tip-mimicking Squash Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Female, body length 20mm
- This bug is quite common in Brisbane Eucalyptus forest. It usually rest with hanging upside-down on a gum tree new shot, mimicking a dry leaf remain of a wilted tip. The bug has a expanded and flat abdomen.
- Mimicking dry leaf
- Notice the 'wilted tip' that the bug made. The bug just mimics as part of the wilted tip.
- Male
- Female
- The different of hind legs between male and female are very obvious in this species.
- When rest, this bug vibrates its antenna tips in a very high frequency.
Nymph
- The female found together with the nymph below.
- Those nymph, look like 4th instars, were found during late winter Jan 2005 together with a female adult. They were different colours and patterns, same as the other Amorbus species.
- Reference:
- 1. Specimen Image Index - Insect Reference Collection Database - ICDB, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, 2006.
- 2. Coreidae - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2005.
