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Green Potato Bug

Cuspicona simplex

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 Australia.January 91, February 79, March 47, April 26, May 17, June 11, July 5, August 22, September 49, October 91, November 93, December 60.
Australia591
New Zealand464
Victoria240
New South Wales219
Canterbury Region176
Queensland89
Wellington Region88
Otago Region51
Auckland Region49
Waikato Region19

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
GenusCuspicona

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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