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Podisus

Podisus is a genus of predatory stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. There are at least 20 described species in Podisus.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Asopinae
Genus: Podisus
Herrich-Schaeffer, 1851

Podisus is a genus of predatory stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. There are at least 20 described species in Podisus.123

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Species

These 20 species belong to the genus Podisus:

  • Podisus aenescens (Stål, 1860)
  • Podisus australis Berg, 1879
  • Podisus borinquensis Barber
  • Podisus brevispinus Phillips, 1982
  • Podisus distinctus (Stål, 1860)
  • Podisus fretus Olsen, 1916
  • Podisus fuscescens (Dallas, 1851)
  • Podisus gillettei Uhler
  • Podisus jole (Stål, 1862)
  • Podisus maculiventris (Say, 1832) (spined soldier bug)
  • Podisus modestus (Dallas, 1851)
  • Podisus mucronatus Uhler, 1897
  • Podisus neglectus
  • Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas, 1851)
  • Podisus placidus Uhler, 1870
  • Podisus sagitta (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Podisus serieventris Uhler, 1871
  • Podisus sigitta (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Podisus subferrugineus Barber & Bruner
  • Podisus vittipennis Herrich-Schaeffer, 1851
References

References

  1. "Podisus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Podisus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading

Further reading

External links
  • Media related to Podisus at Wikimedia Commons