Chlorochroa juniperina
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Pentatomidae |
| Subfamily: | Pentatominae |
| Tribe: | Nezarini |
| Genus: | Chlorochroa |
| Species: | C. juniperina
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Chlorochroa juniperina is a European species of shield bug in the tribe Nezarini.[1] C. juniperina is distributed in mainland Europe from France through to Scandinavia, but became extinct in England in 1925 due to the decline of juniper, its host.[2]
The plate below shows C. juniperina - "Pentantoma juniperina Linn" (bottom-right) in The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands.[3]
Nymph
Plate 2 from Saunders (1892)
References[]
- ^ Dyntaxa Chlorochroa juniperina
- ^ The Species Recovery Trust Lost Life Project
- ^ Edward Saunders (1892) The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland : with notes as to localities & habitats.
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