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Metallic Green Shield Bug - Accarana metallica

This page contains pictures and information about Shield Bugs of genera Accarana that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
Body length 12mm 
 
There is only one Australian species in Genera Accarana
 
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This bug was found once alone on Acacia leaf in Karawatha Park during early summer. The bug was brown in colour with metallic green spots on connexiva.
 
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On Oct 2006, we found this bug again in Karawatha Park, with an enlarged abdomen.
 
 

Reference:
1. Stink Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys,  Australian Museum online 2003.
2. Accarana australica - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
3. Accarana Distant - Department of Entomology, North Dakota State University.
4. Accarana Distant, 1888 - by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002 

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