shield bug

A typically shield-shaped true bug; adults mostly feed on plants, sometimes as predators; c.5000 species, including some pests of economically important crops. (Order: Heteroptera. Family; Pentatomidae.)

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iShield and stink bugs

Acanthosoma labiduroides female

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Infraorder:	Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:	Pentatomoidea

Families

Acanthosomatidae- Shield bugs Aphylidae Canopidae Cydnidae- burrowing bugs Dinidoridae Lestoniidae Megarididae Pentatomidae- stink bugs Phloeidae Plataspididae (Plataspidae) Scutelleridae- shield-back bugs Tessaratomidae Thaumastellidae Thyreocoridae (Corimelaenidae)- black bugs Urostylididae (Urostylidae)

Shield bug and stink bug (or shieldbug and stinkbug) are common names applied to various insects of the Hemiptera order (the "true bugs"), in the Heteroptera suborder.

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