Cazira is a genus of shield bugs found in the Indo-Malayan region.
| Cazira | |
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| Cazira verrucosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Pentatomidae |
| Subfamily: | Asopinae |
| Genus: | Cazira Amyot & Serville, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Cazira verrucosa | |
| Synonyms | |
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Breddiniella | |
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The antennae have five joints and the basal segment does not reach the tip of the head. The pronotum is rugose and the scutellum has inflated tuberculations on it. The fore tibiae are dilated and on the underside the abdomen has an abdominal spine that reaches the hind coxae.[1] [2]
About fifteen species are known in the genus.[3]
Species
edit- Cazira breddini Schouteden, 1907 - Vietnam, Sichuan, Bhutan
- Cazira concinna Hsiao & Cheng, 1977 - Hainan
- Cazira emeia Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Yunnan
- Cazira flava Yang, 1935 - Yunnan
- Cazira friwaldskyi Horvath, 1889 - Himalayas (= Cazira bhoutanica Schouteden, 1907)
- Cazira inerma Yang, 1935 - Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang
- Cazira membrania Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Guizhou, Zhejiang
- Cazira montandoni Breddin, 1903 - Yunnan, Vietnam
- Cazira sichuana Zhang & Lin, 1986 - Sichuan
- Cazira similis Distant, 1902 - Northeast India
- Cazira thibetensis Schouteden, 1907 - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Cazira ulceratus (Burmeister, 1835) - Java, Sumatra (= Cazira vegeta Kirkaldy, 1909) - India, Thailand, Japan
- Cazira verrucosa (Westwood, 1835) - South Asia, Thailand
- Cazira yunnanica (Zhang & Lin, 1982) - Yunnan (earlier under Breddiniella)
References
edit- ^ Distant, W.L. (1902). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 245–247.
- ^ Khuong, Dang Duc (2014). "[One new genus and six new species of the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomida: Heteroptera) for Vietnam]". Tap Chi Sinh Hoc (in Vietnamese). 27 (1): 18–20. doi:10.15625/0866-7160/v27n1.5247.
- ^ Rider, David A.; Zheng Le-Yi (2002). "Checklist and Nomenclatural Notes on the Chinese Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) I. Asopinae" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 24 (2): 107–.