Biology:Scutellera

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Scutellera is the type genus of shield bugs in the subfamily Scutellerinae and tribe Scutellerini. Species are recorded from South and SE Asia.[1]

Species

The following names have been included,[2] but the genus was revised in 2022:[3]

  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)[4])
  3. Scutellera spilogastra (Walker, 1867)
Now revised
  • Scutellera fasciata (Panzer, 1797)
  • previously as synonyms of "S. perplexa":
    • Scutellera brevirostris (Breddin, 1909)
    • Cimex nobilis (Fabricius, 1775) nec Linnaeus, 1763, Scutellera nobilis (Fabricius, 1775) are now Calliphara nobilis (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Scutellera holosericea Dohrn, 1863 is Procilia holosericea (Dohrn, 1863)
  • Scutellera punctatissima Palisot de Beauvois, 1805
  • Scutellera splendida Montrouzier, 1855

References

  1. ↑ GBIF: Scutellera Lamarck, 1801 (retrieved 4 February 2024)
  2. ↑ BioLib.cz: Scutellera Lamarck, 1801 (retrieved 4 February 2024)
  3. ↑ Rédei, DáVid; Tsai, Jing-Fu (2022). "A revision of Scutellera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae)". Zootaxa 5092 (1): 1–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5092.1.1. 
  4. ↑ 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.

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