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
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Megacopta is a genus of true bugs in the family Plataspidae.
Species
- Megacopta bicolor Hsiao & Jen 1977
- Megacopta bituminata (Montandon 1897)
- Megacopta breviceps (Horváth 1879)
- Megacopta caliginosa (Montandon, 1893)
- Megacopta callosa (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta centronubila (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta centrosignata (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius, 1798) (kudzu bug)
- Megacopta cribriella Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta cycloceps Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta dinghushana Chen, 1989
- Megacopta distanti (Montandon, 1893)
- Megacopta fimbriata (Distant, 1887)
- Megacopta fimbrilla Li, 1981
- Megacopta horvathi (Montandon, 1894)
- Megacopta hui (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta laeviventris Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta liniola Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta lobata (Walker, 1867)
- Megacopta longruiana Ren, 2000
- Megacopta punctatissima (Montandon, 1894)(Japanese common plataspid stinkbug){{Cite web|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/342402|title = Megacopta punctatissima}}
- Megacopta rotunda Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta subsolitaris (Yang, 1934)
- Megacopta tubercula Hsiao & Jen, 1977
- Megacopta verrucosa (Montandon, 1897)
- Megacopta w-nigrum (Varshney, 1965)
Symbionts
Bacterial symbionts are necessary for Megacopta bugs to digest soybean plant material.{{cite journal | last=Douglas | first=Angela E. | title=Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms | journal=Annual Review of Entomology | publisher=Annual Reviews | volume=60 | issue=1 | date=2015-01-07 | issn=0066-4170 | doi=10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-020822 | pages=17–34| pmid=25341109 | pmc=4465791 }}
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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External links
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