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Banksia Shield Bug - Poecilometis eximius
Family Pentatomidae
This page contains pictures and information about Banksia Shield Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm, sucking sap on Banksia tree trunk
- This bug is reddish brown in colours, with antenna in five segments of about the same length.
- We found this brown shield bug once during early summer in Alexandra Hill. It was resting on Banksia leaf. When disturbed, it flew to another Banksia tree near by.
- Then we found that is bug is fairy common in Brisbane forest, usually found on Banksia plants, also found on other plants as well.
- This bug is an active flyer comparing with other stink bugs.
- This bug looks vary similar to Two-dots Gum Tree Shield Bug.
- Body length 15mm
- Found this nymph on gum tree trunk in Karawatha Forest Sep 2008. This should be the Poecilometis sp., but not sure it is the Poecilometis parilis or Poecilometis eximius.
- Reference:
- 1. Stink Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys, Australian Museum online 2003.
- 2. A revision of the species of Australian and New Guinea shield bugs formerly placed in the genera Poecilometis Dallas and Eumecopus Dallas (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), with description of new species and selection of lectotypes. - Gross, G.F. (1972). Aust. J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. 15: 1-192 (description, revision)
