Kesing ialah serangga dalam superfamili Pentatomoidea, suborder Heteroptera, order Hemiptera, yang mempunyai bahagian mulut menghisap.[1]

Kesing
Acanthosoma labiduroides jantan
Pengelasan saintifik
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Pentatomoidea

Terdapat kira-kira 7000 spesies dalam Pentatomoidea, dibahagikan kepada 14 hingga 15 famili.[2][3] [4]

Contoh spesies dalam famili Pentatomoidea
The parent bug on a leaf protectively placing its body over a cluster of eggs
Acanthosomatidae: The parent bug (Elasmucha grisea) guarding eggs.
Tritomegas sexmaculatus on a leaf
Cydnidae: Tritomegas sexmaculatus.
An illustration of Megymenum affine
Dinidoridae: Megymenum affine
A southern green stink bug on a leaf
Pentatomidae: The southern green stink bug (Nezara viridula)
Megacopter cribraria on a leaf
Plataspididae: Megacopta cribraria.
The lychee shield bug perched on a leaf
Scutelleridae: The lychee shield bug, Chrysocoris stolli, a jewel bug.
The flattened nymph of Tessaratoma papillosa clambering on some leaves. Its thorax is distinctively square-shaped
Tessaratomidae: Nimfa Tessaratoma papillosa
Chrysocoris stolli, a jewel bug.
 

Rujukan sunting

  1. ^ "Hemiptera: bugs, aphids and cicadas". CSIRO. Dicapai pada 2007-05-08.
  2. ^ Cedric Gillott (1995). Entomology. Springer. m/s. 604. ISBN 9780306449673.
  3. ^ James T. Costa (2006), The other insect societies; Belknap Press Series Harvard University Press, p.311, ISBN 0-674-02163-0
  4. ^ G. Cassis, Australia. Bureau of Flora and Fauna, & Gordon F. Gross (2002). Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). Csiro Publishing. m/s. 353. ISBN 9780643068759.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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