''Scutellera'' is the
type genus of
shield bugs
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 (16 ...
in the subfamily Scutellerinae and tribe
Scutellerini. Species are recorded from South and SE Asia.
Species
The following names have been included,
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''Scutellera'' Lamarck, 1801 (retrieved 4 February 2024) but the genus was revised in 2022:
# ''
Scutellera nepalensis'' - 2 subspecies:
## ''S. nepalensis nepalensis''
## ''S. nepalensis amethystina''
# ''
Scutellera perplexa'' – type species (synonym ''Tectocoris perplexa''
[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.])
# ''
Scutellera spilogastra''
;Now revised:
* ''Scutellera fasciata''
* previously as synonyms of "''S. perplexa''":
** ''Scutellera brevirostris''
** ''Cimex nobilis'' , ''Scutellera nobilis'' are now ''
Calliphara nobilis
''Calliphara nobilis'' (commonly known as the mangrove jewel bug, mangrove shield bug, or mangrove stink bug) is a species of jewel bug found in Asia. Like all species of jewel bugs, it is phytophagous, feeding on the leaves, fruit and seeds of ...
''
* ''Scutellera holosericea'' is ''
Procilia
''Procilia'' is a genus of African shield bugs in the family Scutelleridae and the tribe Scutellerini described by Carl Stål in 1865.
Species
The following have been included:
# '' Procilia holosericea'' Redei D, J-F Tsai (2022) A revision ...
holosericea''
* ''Scutellera punctatissima''
* ''Scutellera splendida''
References
External links
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Pentatomomorpha genera
Hemiptera of Asia
Scutelleridae
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck