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[ Over 12 mm ] [ Legs banded ] [ Colour green ] [ Colour brown/black, under 12mm ]

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Cuspicona simplex
Green potato bug
Present in New Zealand, introduced

BODY LENGTH: About 7 mm. COLOUR: Green with uneven yellowish brown outline on thorax, wing pads and at least part of abdomen; abdomen with one black spot on inner side of each wing pad and two on either side of midline; legs and antennae semi-transparent pale brown (antennal segment 4 dark towards tip).
Glaucias amyoti
Australasian green stink bug (Pale form)
Native to New Zealand

BODY LENGTH: About 9 mm. COLOUR: Head, thorax, wing pads greenish, lightly outlined with black; antennae black; abdomen greenish (paler in front) with 3 large transverse black plates near midline and thin, elongate, black marks along sides; legs dark.
Nezara viridula
Green vegetable bug
Present in New Zealand, introduced

BODY LENGTH: About 11 mm. COLOUR: Greenish; sides of thorax, wing pads, abdomen with pink outline; abdomen with white spots in two rows, one on each side of pink and black tranverse plates near midline; legs greenish with ‘feet’ black (tibiae often pinkish); segments 1-2 of antennae greenish (often pinkish), segments 3-4 black.