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- This page contains pictures and information about Gum Tree Shield Bugs in genera Poecilometis that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Shield Bug Feeding on gum tree trunk
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- Poecilometis is the largest stink bug genera (50 species) in Australia. They are usually found feeding on
gum or wattle trees. We found a few different species in Brisbane. The adults
are 20-25mm in body length. Most are dark brown to reddish brown in colour.
They are usually found on Eucalyptus
or Callitris.
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- There are quite a number of different genera stink bugs in Brisbane Eucalyptus
forest. Most of them are the typical shield-shaped and look similar. They include
the genera Poecilometis, Anchines, Alcaeus, Dippilana,
Bathrus, and Theseus.
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- Following lists the Poecilometis stink bugs that we found. Poecilometis
stink bugs can be distinguished from other similar genera by wings longer than abdomen, with
wing veins linear and mostly subparallel, and they have three to five antennal
segments.
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- Common Gum Tree Shield Bug
 - Poecilometis patruelis , body length nymph10mm, adult 20mm
- Those bug nymph are black and white in colour. The antenna are yellow with dark
end. We found the nymphs in clusters of six to eight under loose bark of a
gum tree. The adults are in shield shape with dark brown and black in
colour. This is the most common stink bug found in Brisbane forests. More information and pictures please click here.
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- Zebra Gum Tree Shield Bug
  - Poecilometis histricus, body length nymph 10mm adults 25mm
- We found those bugs easily at Macgregor and Wishart bushland from late
winter to late summer. They look
similar to the other two Gum Tree Shield Bug species above. More information and pictures please find in this page.
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- Two-dots Gum Tree Shield Bug
  - Poecilometis parilis, body length 20mm
- This bugs was found on a Gum Tree trunk alone on mid summer. They are quite
common on the gum tree trunk in Brisbane. More information and pictures please
click on here.
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- Banksia Shield Bug
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Poecilometis eximius, body length 20mm
- 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. This bug looks similar to the above species except it does not
have the black dot on wings. Click here for
more information.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 508.
- 2. Stink
Bugs of Australia - FaunaKeys,
Australian Museum online 2003.
- 3. .
- 4. 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).
- 5. Poecilometis Dallas, 1851 - Australian Biological Resources Study, 2008.
- 6. Poecilometis Dallas, 1851
- by Gerry Cassis, Emma Betts and Michael Elliott, Stink Bugs, Fauna Net, Australian Museum 2002.
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