Steganocerus multipunctatus
Steganocerus multipunctatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Family: | Scutelleridae |
Genus: | Steganocerus |
Species: | S. multipunctatus |
Binomial name | |
Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg, 1783 | |
Synonyms | |
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Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg 1783, or Ladybird Bug is a Sub-Saharan African member of the Hemiptera with a strong resemblance to a Ladybird. It is normally black with bright orange spots, but is quite variable in colour and may be brown without spots. It shares Müllerian mimicry with the Tortoise beetle Chiridopsis suffriani, [2] and a spider Paraplectana thorntoni. [3][4]
S. multipunctatus is one of the Rhynchota whose presence has been recorded on a wide range of indigenous plants and cultivated crops such as cotton. [5]
External links
- Images on Project Noah
- Images on iSpot
- "Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Pentatomidae in the Hope collection at Oxford" - W. L. Distant
- "Ad cognitionem Heteropterorum Africae occidentalis" - Odo Morannal Reuter
- "Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver alla hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden" - Carl Stål
References
- ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1909.tb08561.x/abstract;jsessionid=CE71FDD815D6D77CDD6FFA24EA361D42.f01t01?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=
- ↑ http://ecoport.org/ep?Arthropod=135761&entityType=AR****&entityDisplayCategory=full
- ↑ http://www.sagr.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?p=233076
- ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/martie_rheeder/4394236015/
- ↑ http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19260500610.html;jsessionid=3A2214C8CB10B9790C8B4903A073D036
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