''Loxa'' is an insect genus in the large family of
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 ...
.
It occurs primarily in
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...
and Mexico, but is also found in Texas, Florida and South America.
While ''Loxa'' is a genus of the tribe
Pentatomini
Pentatomini is a tribe of shield bugs in the subfamily of Pentatominae.
Genera
''BioLib'' includes:
# ''Acrocorisellus'' Puton, 1886
# ''Adevoplitus'' Grazia & Becker, 1997
# ''Ahmadiana'' Ahmad, Kamaluddin & Abbasi, 1977
# ''Amblycara'' Bergr ...
, its species are similar in many respects to those in the
Chlorocorini, specifically the genera: ''
Chlorocoris''
Spinola, ''
Chloropepla''
Stål, ''
Mayrinia''
Horvath and ''
Fecelia''
Stål. Some species of ''Loxa'' are minor crop pests, for example ''
Loxa deducta''.
Species include:
* ''
Loxa deducta''
* ''
Loxa flavicollis''
* ''
Loxa haematica''
* ''
Loxa peruviensis''
* ''
Loxa planiceps''
* ''
Loxa virescens''
* ''
Loxa viridis''
References
Pentatomidae genera
Hemiptera of Central America
Hemiptera of South America
Pentatomini
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