''Sahlbergella'' is a genus of African
bugs
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in the family
Miridae
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and
tribe
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Dicyphini
''Dicyphini'' is a tribe of bugs in the family Miridae.
Subtribes and Genera
The ''On-line Systematic Catalogue of Plant Bugs'' includes: Subtribe Dicyphina
* '' Campyloneura'' Fieber, 1861
* '' Campyloneuropsis'' Poppius, 1914
* '' Chius''
* ...
(subtribe Odoniellina).
Species are mostly distributed in Africa, where ''S. singularis'' is a major insect pest of
cacao: causing damage similar to ''
Distantiella'' in tropical Africa and ''
Helopeltis'' spp. in SE Asia.
[Entwistle PF (1972) ''Pests of Cocoa'', Longmans, London, 779 pp]
Species
The
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lists:
[Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Sahlbergella Haglund, 1895 (retrieved 9 November 2021)]
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# '' Sahlbergella ghesquierei'' Schouteden, 1935
# '' Sahlbergella lais'' Linnavuori, 1973
# '' Sahlbergella maynei'' Schouteden, 1935
# '' Sahlbergella singularis'' Haglund, 1895 - type species[Namyatova AA, Cassis G (2016) Systematics of the tribe Monaloniini ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'', 176, 36–136.]
# '' Sahlbergella soror'' Schouteden, 1935
# '' Sahlbergella tai'' Schmitz, 1987
References
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Miridae genera
Hemiptera of Africa