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Bronze bug

Thaumastocoris peregrinus D. L. Carpintero & Dellapé, 2006

Status not recordedinsects

The bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus) is a species in the family Thaumastocoridae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the bronze bug

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the bronze bug live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The bronze bug is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the bronze bug as introduced in 4 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Uruguayinvasive
  2. Cyprus
  3. South Africa
  4. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the bronze bug endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the bronze bug classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyThaumastocoridae
  6. genusThaumastocoris
  7. SpeciesThaumastocoris peregrinus D. L. Carpintero & Dellapé, 2006

Synonyms Thaumastocoris australicus

Other names and names in other languages (6)
  • Winter bronzing bugEnglish
  • Chinche del eucaliptoSpanish
  • Punaise de l'EucalyptusFrench
  • פשפש האקליפטוסHebrew
  • Percevejo bronzeadoPortuguese
  • Percevejo-do-EucaliptoPortuguese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the bronze bug

Other species in the same genus Thaumastocoris.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the bronze bug live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the bronze bug for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the bronze bug an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the bronze bug as invasive in 1 country: Uruguay. It lists it as introduced in 4 in all.

What kind of animal is the bronze bug?

The bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus) belongs to the family Thaumastocoridae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/bronze-bug

MLA

“Bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/bronze-bug.

BibTeX
@misc{bronze_bug_2026,
  title = {Bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/bronze-bug},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}