Asiarcha

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Asiarcha
Asiarcha oblonga
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Tessaratomidae
Tribe: Tessaratomini
Genus: Asiarcha
Stal, 1870
Type species
Mattiphus nigridorsis
Stål, 1863[1]

Asiarcha is a genus of bugs in the family Tessaratomidae. Species are known from South and Southeast Asia.

Description

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Species in the genus have a pronotal shield extending forward with parallel lateral margins; with the angles of the sixth abdominal segment acute and pointing backwards. They are very similar to the genus Mattiphus in which some species were formerly placed.[2][3]

Species

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Asiarcha includes:[4]

  1. Asiarcha angulosa Zia, 1957
  2. Asiarcha nigridorsis (Stål, 1863) - type species
  3. Asiarcha oblonga (Dallas, 1851)

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