Banded rhopalid
The banded rhopalid is a small bug from Europe and Asia. It is grey-brown to black, and the edges of its body have a pattern of bands. You can find it on sunny meadows and roadsides, sitting on daisy-like flowers.
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Fun facts
It is a scentless plant bug, so it does not give off the strong smell that many other bugs make.
It spends the winter as a grown-up and wakes up again at the end of April.
Its belly is often greenish.
Two little half-circle marks on the front of its back help tell it apart from a very similar cousin.
Most asked questions about Banded rhopalid
?How big is the banded rhopalid?
It is 6.5 to 9 mm long.
?Is the banded rhopalid dangerous?
No. It feeds on plants and does not bite people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stictopleurus punctatonervosus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Rhopalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Rhopalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stictopleurus punctatonervosus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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