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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomoidea » Shield-backed Bugs (Scutelleridae) » Pachycorinae » Orsilochides

Genus Orsilochides

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Works Cited
Another Floridian shield-backed bug - Orsilochides guttata Stink bug nymphs - Orsilochides shield-backed bug??? - Orsilochides guttata Orsilochides Orsilochides Orsilochides Nymphs on Sebastiania fruticosa - Orsilochides guttata Unsplit Carapace True Bug? - Orsilochides guttata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Scutelleridae (Shield-backed Bugs)
Subfamily Pachycorinae
Genus Orsilochides
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=Chelysoma, Chelysomidea, Orsilochus
Numbers
A single species in our area(1)
Food
Members of the genus are associated with wide variety of host plants, incl. species of Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Bromeliaceae, Convolvulaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Pedaliaceae, Poaceae, Solanaceae, and Verbenaceae (Plant Host Records: Scutelleridae)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 18 February, 2007 - 9:25pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 February, 2011 - 8:12am

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