Megacopta
| Megacopta | |
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| Megacopta cribraria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Pentatomomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Pentatomoidea |
| Family: | Plataspidae |
| Genus: | Megacopta Hsiao & Jen, 1977 |
Megacopta is a genus of true bugs in the family Plataspidae.
Megacopta cribraria
Species[]
- Hsiao & Jen 1977
- (Montandon 1897)
- (Horváth 1879)
- (Montandon, 1893)
- (Yang, 1934)
- (Yang, 1934)
- (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius, 1798) (kudzu bug)
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Chen, 1989
- (Montandon, 1893)
- (Distant, 1887)
- Li, 1981
- (Montandon, 1894)
- (Yang, 1934)
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- (Walker, 1867)
- Ren, 2000
- (Montandon, 1894)(Japanese common plataspid stinkbug)[1]
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- (Yang, 1934)
- Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- (Montandon, 1897)
- (Varshney, 1965)
Symbionts[]
Bacterial symbionts are necessary for Megacopta bugs to digest soybean plant material.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Megacopta punctatissima".
- ^ Douglas, Angela E. (2015-01-07). "Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms". Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews. 60 (1): 17–34. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-020822. ISSN 0066-4170. PMC 4465791. PMID 25341109.
Further reading[]
- Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2006). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 5: Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-9071912283.
- Eger, J. E.; Ames, L. M.; Suiter, D. R.; Jenkins, T. M.; et al. (2010). "Occurrence of the Old World bug Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in Georgia". Insecta Mundi (0121): 1–11. ISSN 0749-6737.
External links[]
Media related to Megacopta at Wikimedia Commons
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