Pentatoma

Pentatoma
Adult of Pentatoma rufipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Pentatomidae
Subfamily:	Pentatominae
Tribe:	Pentatomini
Genus:	Pentatoma (Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, 1789)

Pentatoma is a genus of shield bugs in the family Pentatomidae.

Species

Species within this genus include:[1]

• Pentatoma angulata Hsiao & Cheng
• Pentatoma illuminata
• Pentatoma japonica
• Pentatoma kunmingensis Xiong
• Pentatoma metallifera
• Pentatoma parataibaiensis Liu & Zheng, 1995
• Pentatoma rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758) – forest bug or red-legged shieldbug
• Pentatoma semiannulata
• Pentatoma viridicornuta He & Zheng, 2006

References

1. NCBI

External links

• Media related to Pentatoma at Wikimedia Commons