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Family Scutelleridae
- This page contains pictures and information about Green Jewel Bugs that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- We saw a metallic green insect flied pass in front of us and rest on a
leaf. We thought it could be a green beetle. Came closer and found that it was
the Green Jewel bug.
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- The bug is metallic dark green in colour, with orange mark on its back at
the base of the scutellum. Its legs are orange-brown and dark green. Under its
large shield, we can see the orange edges of abdomen.
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- It rested on the leaf for about a minute, then turned around and flied away
after we took those photos. As a shield bug, it is relatively a good flier.
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- We saw this bug once in Brisbane Botanic Garden on Sept 2007.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 508, plate 3U.
- 2. SCUTELLERIDAE Shield-backed Bugs - Save Our Waterways Now, by Robert Whyte, 2007.
- 3. Lampromicra senator (Fabricius, 1803) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 4. Revision of the Australian Scutelleridae Leach
(Hemiptera) - FJD McDonald and G Cassis, Australian Journal of Zoology,
1984.
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