''Elasmucha'' is a genus of
shield bug
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (1 ...
s belonging to the family
Acanthosomatidae
Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named "shield bugs," for which Kumar in his 1979 world revision recognized 47 genera; now this number is 55 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within P ...
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Species
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Elasmucha cordillera'' Thomas, 1991
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Elasmucha ferrugata'' (Fabricius, 1787)
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Elasmucha fieberi'' (Jakovlev, 1864)
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Elasmucha flammatum'' (Distant, 1893)
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Elasmucha grisea
''Elasmucha grisea'', common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae. The term parent bugs includes also the other species of the genus '' Elasmucha'' and some species of the family Acan ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - Parent Shieldbug
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Elasmucha lateralis'' (Say, 1831)
References
Acanthosomatidae
Heteroptera genera
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