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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Predatory Stink Bugs (Asopinae) » Not yet identified nymphs
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Stink bug? with prey
Copyright © 2006 JASON

Stink bug? with prey
Maine, USA
September 16, 2006

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Contributed by JASON on 16 September, 2006 - 11:18pm
Last updated 1 March, 2013 - 9:37am

Moved
Moved from Zicrona.
… v belov, 1 March, 2013 - 9:37am login or register to post comments

ID tentative, isn´t it?
I found at least two genera of predatory stink bugs with metallic nymphs: Euthyrhynchus and Alcaeorrhynchus.
… Boris Büche, 11 April, 2007 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

Spined Soldier Bug nymph
Podisus sp; in the stink bug family. Similar to these , though your photo depicts a late instar nymph, as the wing pads reveal. This one is preying on a ladybug larva, (likely Harmonia axyridis, the Multicolored Asian Ladybug) which in itself is a fierce predator, but is no match for the Soldier Bug nymph.
… Stephen Luk, 16 September, 2006 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Not so sure.
The metallic color reminds me of Zacrona (Zicrona?) caerulea, another predatory pentatomid that specializes on alticine leaf beetles.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 September, 2006 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

 
My mistake ... it's a Zicrona,
though I'm pretty sure that those are larvae of Coccinellids and not alticine leaf beetles. Would Z. caerulea also prey on lady beetle larvae?
… Stephen Luk, 18 September, 2006 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

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