Shield/Stink Bug

A very colourful and attractive Shield/Stink Bug, its body is quite reflective of lights.
They are known as Shield Bugs as they emit a foul smell, which you are likely to smell when you get close to them, meaning sometimes, you smelled them first before seeing them.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Nice! Looks like this entire group is huge and spectacular:
https://www.jungledragon.com/wildlife/browse/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/hemiptera/tessaratomidae Posted 5 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Yes, and there's probably many more others as impressive that has yet to be identified and not 'captured' in the link you shared. Here's an impressive one from Bali :
  
  I wonder for the Identification, it could be possible to have those without species ID to be able to at least classified to the Family level in the Taxonomy box. This will be more helpful when searching within the forum.
  
  As a suggestion, can JD create a certain 'code word or Unknown' for unknown Genus/Species? This will not counts to the Genus/Species ID but at least will be able to group those from the same family together. I have seen in several instances when JD grabs the Taxonomy info from Wikipedia, there were times, certain info were listed as Unknown and had to be manually updated. Posted 5 years ago