Cantao (bug)

Cantao
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
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species
  • Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784)[1]
  • Cantao parentum (White)
  • Cantao pupuratus (Westwood)
  • Cantao variabilis Montrouzier

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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 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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