Genus Orsilochides

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Works Cited

shield-backed 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)

Genus Orsilochides

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

The North American species, O. guttata (Herrich-Schäffer), used to be variously treated as a member of Chelysoma or Chelysomidea

Numbers

A single species north of Mexico.(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 4 December, 2009 - 1:56pm

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