Bedbug (Cimicidae) - Sulawesi

Sampella Village, Wakatobi, Sulawesi

giant water bug (Belostoma sp. aff. dentatum) - Puerto Maldonado, Peru

Collected by A. Kopit
Size 55mm

Face + pronotum

Face detail

Profile

Rostrum in profile

Underside of head

Stylet

Cell

Leg

Claw

Breathing straps

Abdominal venter

Ventral terminalia

assassin bug (Oncerotrachelus acuminatus) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

ID help from Joot (DCP)

BCA link: see figure 8

key to species

red-margined stink bug (Edessa rufomarginata) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

Mariposario Montezuma Gardens - 25mm

hopper nymph (Ricaniidae) - Bali, Indonesia

 Sidemen, Bali, Indonesia
Homoptera: Ricaniidae nymph
ID: Geert Goemans

The waxy plumes are distasteful to predators, and the nymph secretes them constantly as it drains nutrients from the plants with a mouth shaped like a sharpened straw.

sharpshooter (Ladoffa sp.) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

Mariposario Montezuma Gardens

sharpshooter (unknown) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

Mariposario Montezuma Gardens, Costa Rica

leaf-footed bug (Paraphes flavocinctus) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

Coreidae: Paraphes flavocinctus

True bug of Montezuma, Costa Rica

size 30+mm

mealybug (Icerya sp.) - Montezuma, Costa Rica

Icerya sp, (Monophlebidae) Mariposario Montezuma Gardens, Costa Rica

6mm

Spongy cake bug!