''Zicrona'' is a genus of
bugs of 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
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot
Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (23 September 1799, in Vendreeuv – 13 October 1866, in Paris) was a French lawyer and entomologist especially interested in the Hemiptera.
After his father died, Amyot lived with a neighbor, a wealthy merchant, who ...
and
Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville
Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (; his name, before the French Revolution, Revolution, included a Nobiliary particle, particle: Audinet de Serville) was a French entomologist, born on 11 November 1775 in Paris. He died on 27 March 1858 in La Fert ...
Amyot and Serville wrote the genus's name comes from the Hebrew word () meaning "odorant".
Species
, the following four species are recognized:
* ''
Zicrona americana'' Thomas, 1992
* ''
Zicrona caerulea
''Zicrona caerulea'', the blue shieldbug, is a species of bug of the family Pentatomidae.
Description
''Zicrona caerulea'' can reach an adult size of about . The body is uniformly metallic blue-green (hence the Latin name ''caerulea'', meaning ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - Blue Bug
* ''
Zicrona hisarensis'' Chopra & Sucheta, 1984
* ''
Zicrona murreensis'' Rana & Ahmad, 1988
References
External links
Fauna europaea
Asopinae
Taxa named by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot
Taxa named by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville
Pentatomidae genera
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