Southern Green Stink Bug Nezara viridula var torquata In ...
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I found this individual, a Shield-bug or Stink Bug (Pentatomidae) on a huge pot plant on the front patio of our hotel. I had no idea that it was just one variety of a species with many colour forms, including a bright red one. This one, with the pale yellow borders is var torquata.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezara_viridula
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1519-566X2002000300020&script=sci_arttext
The species is now established in southern England:
http://www.nonnativespecies.org//factsheet/factsheet.cfm?speciesId=2356
I was unable to establish whether any of the colour varieties have been found here.
The images have been cropped moderately for composition.
EM-1, Kiron 105mm, f11 1/320 ISO 400, TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
I found this individual, a Shield-bug or Stink Bug (Pentatomidae) on a huge pot plant on the front patio of our hotel. I had no idea that it was just one variety of a species with many colour forms, including a bright red one. This one, with the pale yellow borders is var torquata.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezara_viridula
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1519-566X2002000300020&script=sci_arttext
The species is now established in southern England:
http://www.nonnativespecies.org//factsheet/factsheet.cfm?speciesId=2356
I was unable to establish whether any of the colour varieties have been found here.
The images have been cropped moderately for composition.
EM-1, Kiron 105mm, f11 1/320 ISO 400, TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
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Thanks. Compliments don't come much higher than that. It was not worth doing additional processing on the third one but it shows what the underside looks like.
Harold