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| Steganocerus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Scutelleridae |
| Subfamily: | Scutellerinae |
| Genus: | Steganocerus Mayr, 1864 |
| Species: | S. multipunctatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg, 1783 | |
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Steganocerus multipunctatus, the ladybird bug, is a Sub-Saharan African member of the Hemiptera with a strong resemblance to a ladybird. It is the only species in the genus Steganocerus. It is normally black with bright orange spots, but is quite variable in colour and may be brown without spots. It shares Müllerian mimicry with the Tortoise beetle Chiridopsis suffriani,[2] and a spider Paraplectana thorntoni.[3][4]
Steganocerus multipunctatus is one of the Rhynchota whose presence has been recorded on a wide range of indigenous plants and cultivated crops such as cotton.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Distant, W. L. (1909). "Rhynchota". The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 67–84. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1909.tb08561.x.
- ↑ "Entity Display : Steganocerus multipunctatus".
- ↑ "Sagr.co.za".
- ↑ "Ladybird spider". 28 February 2010.
- ↑ http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19260500610.html;jsessionid=3A2214C8CB10B9790C8B4903A073D036 [dead link]
External links
[edit]- Images on Project Noah
- Images on iSpot
- "Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Pentatomidae in the Hope collection at Oxford" - W. L. Distant
- "Ad cognitionem Heteropterorum Africae occidentalis" - Odo Morannal Reuter
- "Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver alla hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden" - Carl Stål
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