Nezara viridula

TaxID: 85310

Basic Information

Nezara viridula

Southern Green Shield Bug, Southern Green Stink Bug, southern green stink bug

Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it can now be found across the world. Because of its preference for certain species of legumes, such as beans and soybeans, it is an economically important pest on such crops.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Pentatomidae

Nezara

viridula

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Nezara viridula
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(c) Hayath Mohammed@BY-SA
Nezara viridula
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(c) Davide G. Borin@BY-NC
Nezara viridula
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(c) Gábor Keresztes@BY-NC
Nezara viridula
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(c) Karol Ox@BY-NC
Nezara viridula
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(c) Martin Klippel@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Egypt Disinfected-Admitted —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (130 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Angola Present —
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_928085145.1 Chromosome 1185 6352 181513 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR30350925 whole insect male adult male 41897168 USA: Maryland
SRR30350924 whole insect male adult male 50247275 USA: Maryland
SRR30350923 whole insect female adult female 39070563 USA: Maryland

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature