Pests > Pests Entities > Insects > Beetles > Eurydema pulchrum, highlands PNG

G Jackson
4 March 2021
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Eurydema pulchrum

January 2008. A beetle damaging cabbages in the highlands of Papua New Guinea sent for identification.

it was identified as Eurydema pulchrum (Westwood, a pentatomid pest of crucifers, flowering weeds and sometimes peppers. The common name is cabbage shield bug.