''Thestral'' 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 (16 ...

found in central Chile. , it is

monospecific In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

, just consisting its type species ''T. incognitus''. The genus is named after the

thestral Magical creatures are an aspect of the fictional Wizarding World contained in the '' Harry Potter'' series and connected media, all created by British author J. K. Rowling. Throughout the seven main books of the series, Harry and his friends en ...

s, a fictional horse-like creature from

J.K. Rowling Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The ser ...

's '' Harry Potter'' series. The fictional animal has a skeletal body and is unable to be seen by the majority of people; Faúndez & Rider chose this name for the genus due to the bug's ivory coloring and scarcity of specimens.

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Arthropods of Chile Monotypic Hemiptera genera Pentatomidae {{Pentatomoidea-stub

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