Genus Loxa

Classification · Numbers · Identification

Immature Stink Bug, possibly Loxa species - Loxa

Green with red epaulets - Loxa flavicollis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)

Subfamily Pentatominae

Tribe Chlorocorini

Genus Loxa

Numbers

2 sp. according to ITIS and NEARCTICA:

Loxa flavicollis

Loxa viridis

Identification

Differ from other green stinkbugs in spined sides of the pronotum, with the side margin in front of them serrate.

Spines longer in L.viridis (projecting for about heads width).

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 November, 2006 - 5:21pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 19 November, 2007 - 7:48am

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