Dyroderes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1775) is a animal in the Pentatomidae family, order Hemiptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Dyroderes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1775)

Dyroderes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1775)

Dyroderes umbraculatus is a pentatomid shield bug first described in 1775, found across parts of Europe on Galium plants.

Family
Genus
Dyroderes
Order
Hemiptera
Class
Insecta

About Dyroderes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1775)

Dyroderes umbraculatus is a shield bug classified in the family Pentatomidae, subfamily Pentatominae. This species was first formally described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. The genus Dyroderes has only one living extant species, which is D. umbraculatus; however, the biological database BioLib also lists one additional fossil species of the genus, †Dyroderes laticollis, which was described by Piton in 1940. D. umbraculatus primarily inhabits plants from the Galium genus, and its known distribution includes Austria, the British Isles, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hemiptera Pentatomidae Dyroderes

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