Cazira
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Pentatomidae |
| Subfamily: | Asopinae |
| Genus: | Cazira Amyot & Serville, 1843 |
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Breddiniella | |
Cazira is a genus of shield bugs found in the Indo-Malayan region.
Cazira sp. from Kerala
The antennae have five joints and the basal segment does not reach the tip of the head. The pronotum is rugose and the scutellum has inflated tuberculations on it. The fore tibiae are dilated and on the underside the abdomen has an abdominal spine that reaches the hind coxae.[1] [2]
About fifteen species are known in the genus.[3]
- (Westwood, 1835) - Southern India
- Distant, 1902 - Northeast India
- Horvath, 1889 - Himalayas (= Cazira bhoutanica Schouteden, 1907)
- Schouteden, 1907 - Vietnam, Sichuan, Bhutan
- Zhang & Lin, 1986 - Sichuan
- Hsiao & Cheng, 1977 - Hainan
- Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Yunnan
- Yang, 1935 - Yunnan
- Yang, 1935 - Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang
- Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Guizhou, Zhejiang
- Breddin, 1903 - Yunnan, Vietnam
- Schouteden, 1907 - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Kirkaldy, 1909 - India, Thailand, Japan (= Cazira ulcerata (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1839) described from India)
- (Zhang & Lin, 1982) - Yunnan (earlier under Breddiniella)
- (Burmeister, 1835) - Java, Sumatra
References[]
- ^ Distant, W.L. (1902). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 245–247.
- ^ Khuong, Dang Duc (2014). "[One new genus and six new species of the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomida: Heteroptera) for Vietnam]". Tap Chi Sinh Hoc (in Vietnamese). 27 (1): 18–20. doi:10.15625/0866-7160/v27n1.5247.
- ^ Rider, David A.; Zheng Le-Yi (2002). "Checklist and Nomenclatural Notes on the Chinese Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) I. Asopinae" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 24 (2): 107–.
Categories:
- Pentatomidae genera