''Parastrachia'' is a
genus
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of
true bugs
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belonging to the
family
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Parastrachiidae. It was established in 1883 by the English
entomologist
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William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...
. It consists of only two
species
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from Eastern Asia, ''
Parastrachia japonensis'' and ''
Parastrachia nagaensis''.
Like some other members of the superfamily
Pentatomoidea
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 ...
, they exhibit
maternal care of eggs.
[Robert G. Foottit, Peter H. Adler ''Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society'', John Wiley and Sons, 2009, ]
References
Pentatomomorpha genera
Fauna of East Asia
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