''Pygoda'' is a
New World
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genus of stink bugs in the family
Pentatomidae
Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea, and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species.Robert G ...
. It was formerly considered a subgenus of ''
Edessa
Edessa (; ) was an ancient city (''polis'') in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It was founded during the Hellenistic period by Macedonian general and self proclaimed king Seleucus I Nicator (), founder of the Sel ...
'' but was elevated to genus based on morphological traits: species grouped under ''Pygoda'' share a distinctive set of features from body, male external genitalia, and male and female internal genitalia that are very different from any other subgenus of ''Edessa''.
Species
The following species belong to the genus ''Pygoda'':
* ''
Pygoda amianta''
Fernandes, Nascimento & Nunes, 2018
* ''
Pygoda civilis''
(Breddin, 1903)
* ''
Pygoda expolita''
(Distant, 1892)
* ''
Pygoda irrorata''
(Dallas, 1851)
* ''
Pygoda poecila''
Fernandes, Nascimento & Nunes, 2018
* ''
Pygoda polita''
(Lepeletier & Serville, 1825)
* ''
Pygoda ramosa''
Fernandes, Nascimento & Nunes, 2018
* ''
Pygoda thoracica''
(Dallas, 1851)
* ''
Pygoda variegata''
Fernandes, Nascimento & Nunes, 2018
References
Pentatomidae
Pentatomomorpha genera
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