Bugs more bugs
Hemiptera from the forests of Northern Thailand. This page includes true bugs, hoppers and lantern bugs. Cicadas have their own page.
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| Pyrops candelaria (Fulgoridae) These lantern bugs are common in secondary forests | Pyrops spinolae (Fulgoridae) | ||
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| Coreidae bugs | Tessaratomidae possibly genus Eusthenes Laporte |
Tessaratomidae
Pygoplatys auropunctatus (female) |
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Tessaratomidae nymphs |
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| more Tessaratomidae nymphs which arrive at the beginning of the rainy season and are common in secondary woods. They are another local delicacy. |
Pygoplatys auropunctatus (Tessaratomidae) |
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| Lophopidae (?) | Coreidae nymph | Tessaratomidae possibly Amissus testaceous Distant | |
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Reduviidae : Sycanus villicus |
Scutellaridae (Heteroptera) | Pyrrhocoridae | Scutellaridae nymph (Heteroptera) |
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| flatidae nymph: also a local delicacy | mature flatid bug : Flatidae |
Ricaniids are tiny (about 1cm. long) and have intricately patterned wings |
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| Water measurers are common in woodland streams (Gerridae) | |||
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| Eurybrachidae : Messena sp | These bugs are from the forest at over 1000 metres: Pyrrhocoridae nymph (?) | This bug of the Reduviidae family seemed attracted by the resin coming from a burnt pine trunk. (they use resin on their forelegs to glue their preys) | |
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Pentatomidae |
Lygaeidae | Cercopidae : Callitettix sp | |
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Cicadellidae (leaf-hopper) doing his morning exercises |
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| Berytidae (stilt bug) or Alydidae (Leptocorisa ??) | a frog-hopper, minimalist design Cercopidae | Flatidae |
leaf-hopper (Cicadellidae) attracted to a light |
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| Reduviidae : Canthesancus sp | a nighttime visitor to the garden: Nezara viridula (Pentatomidae) | eyeball to eyeball with a giant water bug (Lethocerus grandis, Belostomatidae family) | another flatid bug (Flatidae) |
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Pyrrhocoridae species
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Macroceroea grandis (Pyrrhocoridae) | ||
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Coreidae |
Eurybrachidae : Ancyra sp. | this one hitched a ride on the roof of the car (Reduviidae) | |
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| Coreidae Nymph (??) | Cicadellidae (leaf-hoppers) | leaf-hopper Cicadellidae | |
Thanks to Michel Chantraine, Jérôme Constant, Philippe Magnien, Alessandro Marletta and Colin Raper for help with the id's