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Species Chinavia pensylvanica

Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica Aggregate of colorful bugs feeding on forest fern.  Fern appeared yellowing and fading.  - Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica Chinavia pensylvanica(?) - Chinavia pensylvanica
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 Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Nezarini (Green Stink Bugs and Allies)
Genus Chinavia (Green Stink Bugs)
Species pensylvanica (Chinavia pensylvanica)
Explanation of Names
Acrosterum (Chinavia) pensylvanicum (Gmelin 1790)
Size
12.5-14.5 mm(1)
Identification
smaller and more ovoid than C. hilaris(2)

anterolateral pronotal margin is curved in C. pensylvanica and straight in C. hilaris, per Andrew Meeds in an iNat comment here
Range
mostly ne. NA (QC-FL to ON-MN-KS)(1)(3)
Food
Ferns
Life Cycle


Left to right: Egg, 1st instar nymph, late instar nymph, adult.
Remarks
uncommon
Works Cited
1.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
2.Annotated checklist of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Connecticut
O'Donnell J.E., Schaefer C.W. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 220-234.
3.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.