Hyocephalus aprugnus

Heteroptera (True Bugs)Hyocephalus aprugnus

Belonging to the group of True Bugs (suborder Heteroptera) and Leaf-footed Bugs and Allies (superfamily Coreoidea).

I got to watch a Hyocephalus aprugnus (Ground Dwelling Bug) moult yesterday! So neat. They seem to be very record poor around SA but for some reason they’re in unusual abundance in Onkaparinga. I would not have guessed they’d emerge bright pink! Over the next few hours the exoskeleton will slowly turn to a dark brown to black colour. Many invertebrates have to moult as they grow because their hard exoskeleton does not grow with them, many but species change their form quite radically with each moult each stage between moults is called an ‘instar’.

Source: Connor Margetts / C.Margetts Photography

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• Scientific classification
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Subphylum: Hexapoda
• Class: Insecta
• Informal: Pterygotes
• Order: Hemiptera
• Suborder: Heteroptera
• Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
• Superfamily: Coreoidea
• Family: Hyocephalidae
• Genus: Hyocephalus
• Species: Hyocephalus aprugnus

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Heteroptera (True Bugs)Hyocephalus aprugnus

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