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

Species Orsilochides guttata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
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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 Scutelleridae (Shield-backed Bugs)
Subfamily Pachycorinae
Genus Orsilochides
Species guttata (Orsilochides guttata)
Explanation of Names
Orsilochides guttata (Herrich-Schaeffer 1839)
guttata 'splattered'
Size
9.2–11.9 mm(1)
Range
se US (NC-FL-eTX, AR)(1)
Food
hosts: plants in 6 different families(1)
Works Cited
1.First record of Orsilochides scurrilis (Stål) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae: Pachycorinae) in the United States...
Meeds A.W., Eger J.E., Carnahan S.D. 2021. Insecta Mundi 0884: 1–11.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 18 February, 2007 - 9:25pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 17 June, 2023 - 1:42pm

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