Chlorochroa juniperina

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Juniper Shield Bug
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Pentatominae
Tribe: Nezarini
Genus: Chlorochroa
Species:
C. juniperina
Binomial name
Chlorochroa juniperina
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Chlorochroa junipera (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Chlorochroa juniperina subsp. Juniperina
  • Cimex juniperina Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pentatoma juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Chlorochroa juniperina, commonly known as the juniper shield bug, is a European species of shield bug in the tribe Nezarini. [1] C. juniperina is distributed in mainland Europe from France through to Scandinavia, but became extinct in England in 1925 due to the decline of juniper, its host. [2]

The plate below shows C. juniperina - "Pentantoma juniperina Linn" (bottom-right) in The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Dyntaxa Chlorochroa juniperina
  2. ↑ "The Species Recovery Trust Lost Life Project". Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  3. ↑ Edward Saunders (1892) The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland : with notes as to localities & habitats.


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