Megacopta

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}}

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| image = Megacopta cribraria P1010825a.jpg

| image_caption = Megacopta cribraria

| taxon = Megacopta

| authority = Hsiao & Jen, 1977

| display_parents = 4

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Megacopta is a genus of true bugs in the family Plataspidae.

File:Megacopta cribraria P1010818a.jpg

Species

Symbionts

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References

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 5: Pentatomomorpha II

| date = 2006

| editor-last1 = Aukema | editor-first1 = Berend

| editor-last2 = Rieger | editor-first2 = Christian

| publisher = The Netherlands Entomological Society

| isbn = 978-9071912283

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| title = Occurrence of the Old World bug Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in Georgia

| date = 2010

| last1 = Eger | first1 = J. E.

| last2 = Ames | first2 = L. M.

| last3 = Suiter | first3 = D. R.

| last4 = Jenkins | first4 = T. M.

| last5 = Rider | first5 = D. A.

| last6 = Halbert | first6 = S. E.

| display-authors = 4

| journal = Insecta Mundi

| issue = 0121| pages = 1–11

| issn = 0749-6737

| url = http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/view/25213

}}

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