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Close-up of a brightly colored adult female Hibiscus Harlequin Bug, orange with blue markings, on a green leaf in Gold Coast, Australia.
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Close-up of a brightly colored adult female Hibiscus Harlequin Bug, orange with blue markings, on a green leaf in Gold Coast, Australia.
Cotton harlequin bug With her ornate elytra (forewings) on display, this female cotton harlequin bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus) is a species of jewel bug found in Australia.

list of true bugs

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The suborder Heteroptera comprises the so-called true bugs of the order Hemiptera. This is an alphabetically ordered list of true bugs.

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