Megacopta

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

Megacopta
Megacopta cribraria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:	Pentatomoidea
Family:	Plataspidae
Genus:	Megacopta Hsiao & Jen, 1977

Megacopta cribraria

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)
• 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.

Further reading

• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2006). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 5: Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-9071912283.
• Eger, J. E.; Ames, L. M.; Suiter, D. R.; Jenkins, T. M.; et al. (2010). "Occurrence of the Old World bug Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) in Georgia". Insecta Mundi (0121): 1–11. ISSN 0749-6737.

External links

• Media related to Megacopta at Wikimedia Commons