Scutellera Explained

Scutellera is the type genus of shield bugs in the subfamily Scutellerinae and tribe Scutellerini. Species are recorded from South and SE Asia.^[1]

Species

The following names have been included,^[2] but the genus was revised in 2022:^[3]

1. Scutellera nepalensis - 2 subspecies:
   1. S. nepalensis nepalensis
   2. S. nepalensis amethystina
2. Scutellera perplexa – type species (synonym Tectocoris perplexa ^[4])
3. Scutellera spilogastra

Now revised:

• Scutellera fasciata
• previously as synonyms of "S. perplexa":
  • Scutellera brevirostris
  • Cimex nobilis, Scutellera nobilis are now Calliphara nobilis
• Scutellera holosericea is Procilia holosericea
• Scutellera punctatissima
• Scutellera splendida

Notes and References

1. https://www.gbif.org/species/8305054 GBIF
2. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id684259/ BioLib.cz
3. Rédei . DáVid . Tsai . Jing-Fu . A revision of Scutellera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae) . Zootaxa . 2022 . 5092 . 1 . 1–40 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.1.1.
4. Westwood JO (1837) A catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, M. A., F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. M.E.S. etc. etc., with short Latin descriptions of the new species. J.C. Bridgewater, London, 46 pp.