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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) » Perillus » Two-spotted Stink Bug (Perillus bioculatus)
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Beetle - Perillus bioculatus
Copyright © 2013 Eric Gofreed

Beetle - Perillus bioculatus
Fort Apache, Apache County, Arizona, USA
August 26, 2013
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Contributed by Eric Gofreed on 18 September, 2013 - 1:46pm
Last updated 19 July, 2019 - 11:26pm

Moved
Moved from Perillus.
… v belov, 19 July, 2019 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Perillus splendidus.
… v belov, 12 December, 2018 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

This is clearly bioculatus
This is clearly bioculatus, not splendidus.
… Russell Pfau, 17 May, 2018 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

prob. Perillus splendidus --det. D.B. Thomas
his comment: "The punctures on the thorax are large and widely spaced; also exaptus does not have a band across the base of the scutellum"

Moved from Perillus exaptus.
… v belov, 19 November, 2013 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Couplet 6 of DB Thomas' key s
Couplet 6 of DB Thomas' key states:
Dorsal surface densely punctate.........splendidus
Dorsal punctation widely spaced.........bioculatus

Thomas, D.B. 1992. Taxonomic synopsis of the asopine Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of the Western Hemisphere. The Thomas Say Foundation, Volume XVI. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 156 pp.
… Russell Pfau, 4 December, 2018 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; nice bug
not related to beetles, tho

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 18 September, 2013 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Not an expert but...
Check out the Two-spotted Stink Bug.
… Lisa Dolliver, 18 September, 2013 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

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