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Troilus (bug)

Troilus is a genus of shield bugs in the family Pentatomidae. There are at least two described species in Troilus.

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Troilus
Troilus luridus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Asopinae
Genus: Troilus
Stål, 1868

Troilus is a genus of shield bugs in the family Pentatomidae. There are at least two described species in Troilus.1

Some species of this genus are found in Europe.2

Species

These species belong to the genus Troilus:

  • Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775) g palearctic distribution
  • Troilus maracaja Bernardes, Schwertner & Grazia, 2011 g
  • Troilus testaceus Zheng & Liu, 19873 from Yunnan, China

Data sources: i = ITIS,4 c = Catalogue of Life,5 g = GBIF,1 b = Bugguide.net

References

References

  1. "Troilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. "Troilus Stål, 1867". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  3. Zheng, L.-Y. & Liu, G-Q. 1987a. New genus and new species of Pentatomidae from Yunnan, China (lnsecta: Hemiptera). Acta zootaxon. sin., 12(2): 181-191. [In Chinese] Preview
  4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  5. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-05-25.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2006). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 5: Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 9071912280.
  • Paiero, S.M.; Marshall, S.A.; McPherson, J.E.; Ma, M.S. "Stink bugs (Pentatomidae) and parent bugs (Acanthosomatidae) of Ontario and adjacent areas...". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. 24: 1–183.