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Family Plataspidae

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Plataspidae
Explanation of Names
Plataspididae Dallas 1851
Numbers
2 recently introduced spp. in our area(1)(Halbert et al. 2020), ~560 spp. in ~60 genera worldwide, a half of the spp. are in Coptosoma(2)
Size
2-20 mm(3)
Identification
beetlelike, strongly convex, often as broad or broader than long, antennae appear 4-segmented, scutellum covers abdomen completely, wings very long and folding under scutellum, tarsi 2-segmented(3)
Range
an Old World family (mostly tropical/subtropical, with some Coptosoma spp. ranging into temperate Palaearctic(3)), most diverse in se. Asia(2); represented in the New World by a single recently introduced species(1)
Food
mostly herbivorous; some subsist on fungi(4)
Remarks
Females create a multilayers protective envelope in their distal midgut which deposits at the same time as oviposition occurs. The new hatchings feed on this capsule and its contents, establishing the microbial symbiosis their need.(5)
Works Cited
1.Occurrence of the Old World bug Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in Georgia...
Eger J.E., Ames L.M., Suiter D.R., Jenkins T.M., Rider D.A., Halbert S.E. 2010. Insecta Mundi 0121: 1-11.
2.Biodiversity of the Heteroptera
Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.
3.True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History
Randall T. Schuh & James Alexander Slater. 1995. 1995. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
4.Bugs of the World
George C. McGavin. 1999. Blandford Press.
5.Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes
Angela E. Douglas. 2022. Princeton University Press.