[ID] Leafhopper and Shieldbug, please!

Jason Green · #1 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 12:45 AM

Hi all,

Two hemipterans for ID, please!

Sep 2009

A Zygina sp.?
...pale, with dark markings

Oct 2009

2-tarsi'd Shieldbug...
...died in a web

Thanks for looking!

Take care,

Jason

Hedera · #2 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 12:52 AM

Hi Jason,
Looking at shield bugs after I found that one the other day I think yours is a Forest bug - Pentatoma rufipes, with those squared shoulders. Shoot me down if I'm wrong!

ron1863 · #3 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 12:55 AM

The second shot looks like the Forest Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes) Jason, judging by it's squared off shoulders but I am not too hot on bugs.

Ron

Acutipuerilis · #4 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 08:28 AM

Yep, Pentatoma rufipes - it probably lost a tarsal segment as a nymph, and is doing it's bes to be normal!

The leafhopper is indeed an aderrant Zygina - well done! These ones actually need dissection; I don't think the colour features often used to ID them are consistent.

Jason Green · #5 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 11:42 AM

Thanks Ron, Hed and Joe.Abberant Zygina it is, then. The only reason I doubted my initial suspicion about the Forest Bug (...that would have been a fist for me. Why couldn't I see a live one for that?!) was because it only appeared to have two tarsal segments.

Thanks again!

PS: I found a Juniper shieldbug in my garden, too - only I don't have Juniper or Lawson's Cypress too locally... I don't think.

Jason Claxton · #6 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 12:08 PM

Hi Jason,also Western Red Cedar for Juniper SB,it does wander though as with most things ,Ive found it on Birch,Coast Redwood and quite a few others besides.