Gynenica

Gynenica
Gynenica affinis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Tribe: Lestonocorini
Genus: Gynenica
Dallas, 1851[1]
Type species
Gynenica marginella
Dallas, 1851
Synonyms

Gastroxys Horváth, 1904

Gynenica is a genus of stink bug with about fourteen species in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is one of four genera placed in the tribe Lestonocorini along with Lestonocoris, Neogynenica, and Umgababa that occur in Africa and India and feed on plants in the family Acanthaceae.[2] Bugs in the genus have the pronotum tips extended into forward and upward curving spines. The scutellum is longer than broad, the apex with a rounded point and not reaching beyond the middle of the abdomen.[3]

Species in the genus include:[4][5]

  • Gynenica sp., adult
    Gynenica sp., adult
  • Gynenica sp. nymph and adult
    Gynenica sp. nymph and adult
  • Gynenica sp. nymph
    Gynenica sp. nymph
  • Adult Gynenica sp.
    Adult Gynenica sp.

References

  1. ^ Dallas, W.S. (1851). List of specimens of Hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, London. Part I. p. 180.
  2. ^ Schaefer, Carl W.; Ahmad, Imtiaz (1987). "A cladistic analysis of the genera of the Lestonocorini (Hemiptera) Pentatomidae: Pentatominae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 89: 444–447.
  3. ^ Distant, W.L. (1902). Fauna of British India. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 188.
  4. ^ Leston, D. (1953). "Notes on the Ethiopian Pentatomidae (Hem.): VII A review of Gynenica Dallas 1851". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 48 (3–4): 179–195.
  5. ^ Mathew, Koshy (1980). "A new species of Gynenica from South India (Heteroptera : Pentatomidae)". Oriental Insects. 14 (3): 379–382. doi:10.1080/00305316.1980.10434816.