With unusual tusks, forked horns for camouflage, and mysterious patches of matted hair, this new-to-science stink bug was discovered in Western Australia.
at the Western Australian Museum discovered the stink bug, which is believed to be new to science and has yet to be named, with the help of Indigenous Tjaltjraak park rangers.” – an Australian government scheme to identify new species – the team placed nets under plants in the area and beat them with a stick to dislodge and collect insects.“It was getting towards the end of the trip and I wasn’t having much luck, but then I found one of these and there was great excitement,” says Cassis.
The pea-sized creature has brown and orange patterning that allows it to camouflage with the plant species that it lives on, a shrub calledMales and females both have two large forked horns. These appear to provide extra camouflage by resembling the pointy tips of the host plant’s leaves, says Cassis. “[The stink bugs] blend in with their plants really well – they’re very hard to spot,” he says.A monthly celebration of the biodiversity of our planet’s animals, plants and other organisms.
It also has a patch of white matted hair on its side which “may serve like a blanket for heat regulation,” says Cassis. “We really don’t know much about this species yet.” Australia is well-known for its unusual animals – including the platypus, kangaroo and koala, but there is a growing appreciation that this weirdness extends to the insect world too, says Cassis. “The continent has been isolated for a long time so there’s been a huge amount of evolution that’s endemic to Australia,” he says.
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