Cantao (bug)
Cantao | |
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Cantao ocellatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Infraorder: | Pentatomomorpha |
Superfamily: | Pentatomoidea |
Family: | Scutelleridae |
Subfamily: | Scutellerinae |
Tribe: | Scutellerini |
Genus: | Cantao |
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Cantao is a genus of true bugs in family Scutelleridae.[2][3]
Description
Body elongate oval; head elongate, with nearly straight and carinate lateral margins; pronotum with posterolateral angles produced at base of scutellum; scutellum with a pair of deep foveae basally; peritreme large, occupying most of metapleurite, evaporatorium reduced.[3]
Distribution
Distributed in the Indomalaya, the Wallacea, New Guinea and Australia. A doubtful species (Cantao africanus) has been reported from tropical Africa. A fossil species (tentatively placed into Cantao) was described from the middle Miocene of Tottori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.[3]
Species
- Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784)
- Cantao variabilis (Montrouzier, 1855)
- Cantao purpuratus (Westwood, 1837)
- Cantao parentum (White, 1839)
- Cantao africanus Horváth, 1892
- † ?Cantao yamanai Fujiyama, 1967 (fossil)
References
- ↑ Leong, Tzi Ming; Lee, Benjamin P. Y-H. (2012). "Records and natural history of the ocellated shield bug, Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg) in Singapore, with observations on egg guarding, hatching, parasitoids, moulting, feeding, and mating (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae: Scutellerinae)" (PDF). Nature in Singapore. 5: 249–262. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2013.
- ↑ McDonald, F. J. D. (1988). "A revision of Cantao Amyot and Serville (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)". Oriental Insects. 22: 287–299. doi:10.1080/00305316.1988.11835493.
- 1 2 3 Jing-Fu Tsai; Dávid Rédei; Geng-Fang Yeh & Man-Miao Yang (1991). Jewel bugs of Taiwan (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). National Chung Hsing University. p. 309. ISBN 978-9-8602-8723-3.
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