Steganocerus multipunctatus

Steganocerus multipunctatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Scutelleridae
Genus: Steganocerus
Species: S. multipunctatus
Binomial name
Steganocerus multipunctatus
Thunberg, 1783
Synonyms
  • Cimex argus Fabricius 1787
  • Cimex rusticus Fabricius 1787
  • Cimex multipunctatus Thunberg 1788 [1]
  • Sphaerocoris adspersus Stål 1853
  • Sphaerocoris hamiferus Stål 1853
  • Sphaerocoris impluviatus Germar 1839
  • Sphaerocoris quadrinotata Westwood 1837
  • Sphaerocoris simplex Herrich-Schäffer 1836
  • Sphaerocoris simulans Stål 1858
  • Steganocerus machadoi Leston 1954

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

  1. ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1909.tb08561.x/abstract;jsessionid=CE71FDD815D6D77CDD6FFA24EA361D42.f01t01?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=
  2. ↑ http://ecoport.org/ep?Arthropod=135761&entityType=AR****&entityDisplayCategory=full
  3. ↑ http://www.sagr.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?p=233076
  4. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/martie_rheeder/4394236015/
  5. ↑ http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19260500610.html;jsessionid=3A2214C8CB10B9790C8B4903A073D036
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