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Shield Bug

Elasmucha lateralis

Classification

Class
Insecta

The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera. As hemipterans, they possess a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 extant and 5 extinct).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog