Biology:Sahlbergella

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Sahlbergella
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Subfamily: Bryocorinae
Tribe: Dicyphini
Subtribe: Odoniellina
Genus: Sahlbergella
Haglund, 1895

Sahlbergella[1] is a genus of African bugs in the family Miridae and tribe Dicyphini (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.[2]

Species

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:[3]

  1. Sahlbergella ghesquierei Schouteden, 1935
  2. Sahlbergella lais Linnavuori, 1973
  3. Sahlbergella maynei Schouteden, 1935
  4. Sahlbergella singularis Haglund, 1895 - type species[4]
  5. Sahlbergella soror Schouteden, 1935
  6. Sahlbergella tai Schmitz, 1987

References

  1. Haglund (1895) Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockholm, 52.
  2. Entwistle PF (1972) Pests of Cocoa, Longmans, London, 779 pp
  3. Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Sahlbergella Haglund, 1895 (retrieved 9 November 2021)
  4. Namyatova AA, Cassis G (2016) Systematics of the tribe Monaloniini Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176, 36–136.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q20679062 entry