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Sunflower Seed Bug

Agonoscelis versicoloratus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) evanson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 23, February 23, March 31, April 48, May 48, June 27, July 16, August 17, September 24, October 49, November 53, December 45.
South Africa404
Western Cape131
KwaZulu-Natal104
Gauteng88
Eastern Cape42
Kenya11
Limpopo8
Mpumalanga8
Free State6
Zambia6

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderTrue Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
FamilyStink Bugs · Pentatomidae
GenusAgonoscelis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Sunflower Seed Bug with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.