''Jalla'' is a genus of European

shield bugs The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera. As hemipterans, they possess a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 familie ...

in the subfamily

Asopinae Asopinae are a subfamily of Pentatomidae, stink bugs (family (biology), family Pentatomidae). They are predatory stink bugs that are useful as biological control agents against pests, even against other Pentatomid species, which are all herbivo ...

erected by

Carl Wilhelm Hahn Carl Wilhelm Hahn (Lat. ''Carolus Guilielmus Hahn'', 16 December 1786 – 7 November 1835) was a German zoologist and author of the first German monograph on spiders. C. W. Hahn was an all-round natural scientist – not at all unusual for his ...

in 1832. The

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

''Jalla dumosa'' is recorded from northern Europe including the

British Isles The British Isles are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner Hebrides, Inner and Outer Hebr ...

.Southwood TRE, Leston D (1959) ''Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles'' Warne. Jalla dumosaDSC05721

Species

According to ''BioLib'' the following are included:BioLib.cz
genus ''Jalla'' Hahn, 1832 (retrieved 10 April 2022) # '' Jalla anthracina'' Jakovlev, 1885 # '' Jalla dumosa'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
- type species (as ''

Cimex ''Cimex'' is a genus of insects in the family Cimicidae. ''Cimex'' species are ectoparasites which typically feed on the blood of birds and mammals. Two species, ''Cimex lectularius'' and ''Cimex hemipterus'', are known as bed bugs and frequentl ...

dumosus'' L.) # '' Jalla subcalcarata'' Jakovlev, 1885 # '' Jalla subdilatata'' Reuter, 1900

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q4041774 Pentatomidae genera Hemiptera of Europe Asopinae