| Chrysocoris stollii | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Chrysocoris stollii captured on a leaf at Nandi Hills, Bangalore, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Scutelleridae |
| Genus: | Chrysocoris |
| Species: | C. stollii |
| Binomial name | |
| Chrysocoris stollii (Wolff, 1801) | |
Chrysocoris stollii is a polyphagous species of jewel bugs (Scutelleridae) common in continental Southeast Asia.
General colour of dorsum metallic blue, green, or purple; abdominal venter yellow, broadly margined with purple laterad to spiracles, spiracles II–VII each surrounded by a rounded black spot; pro-, meso- and metepimeroids together with the supracoxal lobes yellow; coxae and trochanters pale yellow, femora with an apical annulus and longitudinal bands black, tibiae and tarsi black. [1]
These insects feed on plant juices from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops such as Pigeon pea, Pongamia, Arecanut, Jatropha etc. [2]
One of the most common and abundant scutellerid in continental Southeast Asia. It is distributed all over Indochina and through the Sub-Himalayan Belt it extends up to Pakistan. Verified records are available from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; literature records from Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia are erroneous. [1]
