Sahlbergella

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Sahlbergella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Miridae
Subfamily: Bryocorinae
Tribe: Dicyphini
Subtribe: Odoniellina
Genus: Sahlbergella
Haglund, 1895

Sahlbergella [1] is a genus of African bugs in the family Miridae and tribe Dicyphini (subtribe Odoniellina).

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Species are mostly distributed in Africa, where S. singularis is a major insect pest of cacao: causing damage similar to Distantiella in tropical Africa and Helopeltis spp. in SE Asia. [2]

Species

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists: [3]

  1. Sahlbergella ghesquierei Schouteden, 1935
  2. Sahlbergella lais Linnavuori, 1973
  3. Sahlbergella maynei Schouteden, 1935
  4. Sahlbergella singularis Haglund, 1895 - type species [4]
  5. Sahlbergella soror Schouteden, 1935
  6. Sahlbergella tai Schmitz, 1987

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References

  1. Haglund (1895) Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockholm, 52.
  2. Entwistle PF (1972) Pests of Cocoa, Longmans, London, 779 pp
  3. Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Sahlbergella Haglund, 1895 (retrieved 9 November 2021)
  4. Namyatova AA, Cassis G (2016) Systematics of the tribe Monaloniini Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176, 36–136.