Myrocharia

Aednus sp., from here.


Belongs within: Pentatominae.

The Myrocharia are an Old World group of shield bugs with the head flattish, the lateral margins of the head and sometimes also of the pronotum expanded, and the thoracic sterna usually sulcate (Gross 1975).

<==Myrocharia [Dorpiaria, Myrocheinae] G75
    |--Myrochea G75
    |--Laprius G75
    |--Paramecocoris G75
    |--Ennius G75
    |--Erachteus G75
    |--Cocalus G75
    |--Aednus G75
    |--Dorpius G75
    |--Hippota G75
    |--Praetestatus G75
    `--Valescus G75

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[G75] Gross, G. F. 1975. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera—Part I. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia.

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