🦋 Family

Plataspidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hemiptera › Plataspidae

Brachyplatys subaeneus, the black bean bug, is an invasive Asian shield bug pest that has spread to the Western Hemisphere.

Coptosoma scutellatum is a small 4–5 mm thermophile true bug ranging from North Africa to East Asia, missing from the British Isles.

Megacopta cribraria, the kudzu bug, is an invasive legume-feeding shield bug native to Asia that is a crop pest but also suppresses invasive kudzu.

Megacopta punctatissima is the former name for Japanese populations of the pest shield bug Megacopta cribraria, now found to be one species.

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