Bug ID help, please

specimin · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 09:38 PM

Hi all.
I found this wandering around on the wheelie bin during the summer, i assume it's some kind of hemiptera, any thoughts anyone?

Jason Green · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 10:18 PM

It looks like a damsel bug of some kind - stand by, I'll try and ID it further...

EDIT: Sorry, drawn a blank

Definately a hemipteran - you'll get a name soon

tristanba · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 10:28 PM

This a 1st instar nymph of the Dock bug Coreus marginatus (a squash bug)

Cheers
Tristan

Jason Green · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 10:40 PM

Really? Wow. I've seen them, this looks nothing like it!!! Very surprising. I thought the antennaes were quite broad... but the body wasn't wide or flat enough for the adult.

Acutipuerilis · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 10:40 PM

Certainly a coreid early instar, but I'm not sure I'd be categorical about C. marginatus at this growth stage (what does Coriomeris denticulatus look like at this stage?)... but I agree it's most likely Dock Bug.

specimin · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 10:44 PM

Cheers guys.

The closest i have found is Enoplops scapha but mine is not as spikey.

tristanba · #7 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by specimin

Cheers guys.

The closest i have found is Enoplops scapha but mine is not as spikey.

Indeed, Enoplops is also unlikely in a garden setting. As Joe says Coriomeris is a possibilility but I have never seen a picture of a nymph; Southwood & Leston state they are 'covered in little black tubercles from which stout bristles arise'.

I agree the body doesn't look very broad Jason, but it could just be the angle of the photo

specimin · #8 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 11:41 PM

Here's a couple more images, may be these will help.

Pudding4brains · #9 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tristanba

Coriomeris is a possibilility but I have never seen a picture of a nymph;

Here's one albeit classified as "unconfirmed".

But what about the Box Bug Gonocerus acuteangulatus - with all the green on it I'd say that's a good bet too, or not???

Cheers, Arp