Catacanthus incarnatus is a animal in the Pentatomidae family, order Hemiptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Catacanthus incarnatus
Catacanthus incarnatus, the man-faced stink bug, is a pentatomid insect noted for a back pattern resembling Elvis Presley.
The genus name Catacanthus means "having downward-pointing thorns", and it is a genus of insects in the family Pentatomidae. Species of this genus are distributed across Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Japan, and South Korea. Entomologists have observed that the back of Catacanthus incarnatus, commonly called the man-faced stink bug, resembles Elvis Presley.
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Perillus circumcinctus Stål, 1862
Oebalus ypsilongriseus (De Geer, 1773)
Perillus exaptus (Say, 1825)
Brochymena sulcata Van Duzee, 1918
Edessa bifida (Say, 1832)
Dendrocoris humeralis (Uhler, 1877)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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