Steganocerus multipunctatus
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| Species: | S. multipunctatus
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| Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg, 1783
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Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg 1783, or ladybird bug, is a Sub-Saharan African member of the Hemiptera with a strong resemblance to a Ladybird. It is normally black with bright orange spots, but is quite variable in colour and may be brown without spots. It shares Müllerian mimicry with the Tortoise beetle Chiridopsis suffriani,[2] and a spider Paraplectana thorntoni.[3][4]
S. multipunctatus is one of the Rhynchota whose presence has been recorded on a wide range of indigenous plants and cultivated crops such as cotton.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Distant, W. L. (1909). "Rhynchota". The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 67–84. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1909.tb08561.x.
- ^ "Entity Display : Steganocerus multipunctatus".
- ^ "Sagr.co.za".
- ^ "Ladybird spider". 28 February 2010.
- ^ http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19260500610.html;jsessionid=3A2214C8CB10B9790C8B4903A073D036 [dead link]
External links[edit]
- Images on Project Noah
- Images on iSpot
- "Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Pentatomidae in the Hope collection at Oxford" - W. L. Distant
- "Ad cognitionem Heteropterorum Africae occidentalis" - Odo Morannal Reuter
- "Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver alla hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden" - Carl Stål