Cazira

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Cazira
Cazira verrucosa.jpg
Cazira verrucosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Asopinae
Genus: Cazira
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Type species
Cazira verrucosa
Synonyms

Breddiniella

Cazira is a genus of shield bugs found in the Indo-Malayan region.

Cazira sp. from Kerala Cazira - Pentatomidae (cropped).jpg
Cazira sp. from Kerala

The antennae have five joints and the basal segment does not reach the tip of the head. The pronotum is rugose and the scutellum has inflated tuberculations on it. The fore tibiae are dilated and on the underside the abdomen has an abdominal spine that reaches the hind coxae. [1] [2]

About fifteen species are known in the genus. [3]

Species

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References

  1. Distant, W.L. (1902). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 245–247.
  2. Khuong, Dang Duc (2014). "[One new genus and six new species of the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomida: Heteroptera) for Vietnam]". Tap Chi Sinh Hoc (in Vietnamese). 27 (1): 18–20. doi: 10.15625/0866-7160/v27n1.5247 .
  3. Rider, David A.; Zheng Le-Yi (2002). "Checklist and Nomenclatural Notes on the Chinese Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) I. Asopinae" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 24 (2): 107–.