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The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families. Among these are the stink bugs and shield bugs, jewel bugs, giant shield bugs, and burrower bugs.
Stink bug or stinkbug is a common name for several insects and may refer to:
Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a continuous shield over the abdomen and wings. This latter characteristic distinguishes them from most other families within Heteroptera, and may lead to misidentification as a beetle rather than a bug. These insects feed on plant juices from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops. Closely related to stink bugs, they may also produce an offensive odour when disturbed. There are around 450 species worldwide.
Calliphara nobilis is a species of jewel bug found in Asia. Like all species of jewel bugs, it is phytophagous, feeding on the leaves, fruit and seeds of its host plants. This insect is notable for its multiple defense mechanisms: it is highly mobile and swarms disperse with a loud buzz when disturbed; it is aposematically colored, which serves as a warning to any would-be predators that it is unpalatable; and it possesses a robust chemical defense mechanism: it can secrete an irritating and toxic fluid from a pair of metathoracic scent glands when threatened.
Cantao is a genus of true bugs in family Scutelleridae.
Sphaerocoris annulus, common names Picasso bug or Zulu hud bug, is a species of shield-backed bugs of the family Scutelleridae.
Lampromicra is a genus of true bugs in the family Scutelleridae. They are commonly referred to as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs.
Orsilochides guttata is a species of shield-backed bug in the family Scutelleridae. It is found in North America.
Orsilochides is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least three described species in Orsilochides.
Acantholomidea is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least two described species in Acantholomidea.
Diolcus is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least three described species in Diolcus.
Phimodera is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are about 11 described species in Phimodera.
Tetyra is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are about seven described species in Tetyra.
Symphylus is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least four described species in Symphylus.
Augocoris is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are at least two described species in Augocoris.
Euptychodera is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There is one described species in Euptychodera, E. corrugata.
Fokkeria is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There is one described species in Fokkeria, F. producta.
Vanduzeeina is a genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae. There are about five described species in Vanduzeeina.
Tetyra bipunctata, the shieldbacked pine seed bug, is a species of shield-backed bug in the family Scutelleridae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Pachycoris is a genus of true bugs in the family Scutelleridae, subfamily Pachycorinae. The adults often have large bright spots. It was described by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843.
References
- ↑ Sharma, Praveen (2011). Systematic studies of family scutelleridae (hemiptera: heteroptera) and biology of an economically important scutellerid bug, scutellera perplexa (westwood) (PDF) (Thesis). Aligarh Muslim University.
- ↑ Mukai, Hiromi; Takanashi, Takuma; Yamawo, Akira (2022). "HIERARCHICAL MULTIMODAL SIGNALS IN THE COURTSHIP DISPLAYS OF JEWEL BUGS". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. [Wiley, Ecological Society of America]. 103 (3): 1–6. JSTOR 48673828 . Retrieved 2023-01-11.
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