Shield (or Stink?) Bug ID Request - Trichopepla semivittata - BugGuide.Net

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Shield (or Stink?) Bug ID Request - Trichopepla semivittata

Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
September 17, 2007

Contributed by Thomas of Baltimore City on 25 September, 2007 - 10:19pm
Last updated 4 November, 2008 - 12:56am

Moved

Moved from Cosmopepla.

… John R. Maxwell, 4 November, 2008 - 12:56am

Moved

Moved from Stink Bugs.

… Thomas of Baltimore City, 24 October, 2008 - 8:22am

Pentatomidae.

If this was quite small, then it is probably a species of Cosmopepla. Most species are plain, not like the black and red one that is so obvious:-)

… Eric R. Eaton, 26 September, 2007 - 3:20pm

Trichopepla semivittata

[my earlier call was wrong]

… v belov, 24 October, 2008 - 6:54am

pls move to the sp. page per amended ID

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… v belov, 3 November, 2008 - 11:58pm

It

is on the dried seed head of what I suspect to be Plantago lanceolata. Does that help?

… Thomas of Baltimore City, 26 September, 2007 - 7:03pm

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