Scutellera

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Scutellera
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Scutellera perplexa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Scutelleridae
Tribe: Scutellerini
Genus: Scutellera
Lamarck, 1801 [1]

Scutellera is the type genus of shield bugs in the subfamily Scutellerinae and tribe Scutellerini. Species are recorded from South and SE Asia. [2]

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Species

The following names have been included, [3] but the genus was revised in 2022: [4]

  1. Scutellera nepalensis (Westwood, 1837) - 2 subspecies:
    1. S. nepalensis nepalensis
    2. S. nepalensis amethystina(Germar, 1839)
  2. Scutellera perplexa (Westwood, 1837)type species (synonym Tectocoris perplexa(Westwood, 1837) [5] )
  3. Scutellera spilogastra (Walker, 1867)
Now revised

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References

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  2. GBIF: Scutellera Lamarck, 1801 (retrieved 4 February 2024)
  3. BioLib.cz: Scutellera Lamarck, 1801 (retrieved 4 February 2024)
  4. Redei D, J-F Tsai (2022) A revision of Scutellera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae) Zootaxa 5092 No. 1
  5. Westwood JO (1837) A catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, M. A., F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. M.E.S. etc. etc., with short Latin descriptions of the new species. J.C. Bridgewater, London, 46 pp.