Megacopta

Megacopta

Megacopta cribraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
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

Megacopta bicolor Hsiao & Jen 1977
Megacopta bituminata (Montandon 1897)
Megacopta breviceps (Horváth 1879)
Megacopta caliginosa (Montandon, 1893)
Megacopta callosa (Yang, 1934)
Megacopta centronubila (Yang, 1934)
Megacopta centrosignata (Yang, 1934)
Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius, 1798) (kudzu bug)
Megacopta cribriella Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta cycloceps Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta dinghushana Chen, 1989
Megacopta distanti (Montandon, 1893)
Megacopta fimbriata (Distant, 1887)
Megacopta fimbrilla Li, 1981
Megacopta horvathi (Montandon, 1894)
Megacopta hui (Yang, 1934)
Megacopta laeviventris Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta liniola Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta lobata (Walker, 1867)
Megacopta longruiana Ren, 2000
Megacopta punctatissima (Montandon, 1894)(Japanese common plataspid stinkbug)
Megacopta rotunda Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta subsolitaris (Yang, 1934)
Megacopta tubercula Hsiao & Jen, 1977
Megacopta verrucosa (Montandon, 1897)
Megacopta w-nigrum (Varshney, 1965)

Symbionts

Bacterial symbionts are necessary for Megacopta bugs to digest soybean plant material.

References

↑ "Megacopta punctatissima".
↑ Douglas, Angela E. (2015-01-07). "Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms". Annual Review of Entomology. 60 (1). Annual Reviews: 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

Taxon identifiers
Megacopta	Wikidata: Q18707140 Wikispecies: Megacopta BOLD: 170965 BugGuide: 349549 EPPO: 1MGCOG GBIF (old): 4781345 iNaturalist: 209175 IRMNG: 1398608 NCBI: 299256 Open Tree of Life: 529377

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