Lis, Jerzy A.
Dinidoridae
Sign in to saveDinidoridae is a small family of hemipteran "true bugs" comprising about sixteen genera and a hundred species the Hemiptera suborder Heteroptera. As a group the family does not have any common name. Until the late 19th century they were generally regarded as a subfamily of Pentatomidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 23
- Family
- Dinidoridae
- Collections
- LACM, INHS, SAM, WAM, MSU, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Germany, Costa Rica, United States, South Africa, Namibia, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Kenya
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Tribes and genera
- Dinidorinae
- Megymeninae
- Biology
- Distribution
- References
Dinidoridae is a small family of hemipteran "true bugs" comprising about sixteen genera and a hundred species the Hemiptera suborder Heteroptera. As a group the family does not have any common name. Until the late 19th century they were generally regarded as a subfamily of Pentatomidae.
==Description== Most members of the family Dinidoridae are large and robust in build; the bodies of some species may exceed 27 mm in length. In shape they are ovoid to oblong. The head and pronotum have lateral keels. The scutellum is moderately short and blunt, typically some 50% of the abdominal length.
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