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Shield Bugs
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Shield Bugs

Acanthosomatidae

Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named “shield bugs,” for which Kumar in his World revision recognizes 47 genera; now this number is 54 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within Pentatomoidea. In 2014 a new genus was described upgrading the number of valid genera to 55.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Acanthosomatinae

subfamilyAcanthosomatinae

Blaudusinae

subfamilyBlaudusinae

Ditomotarsinae

subfamilyDitomotarsinae

Blaudus andicola

speciesBlaudus andicola

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51159.