Mecidea

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Mecidea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Pentatominae
Tribe: Mecideini
Genus: Mecidea
Dallas, 1851

Mecidea is a genus of narrow stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. There are eight described species in Mecidea.[1][2][3] Species within this genus feed on grasses like Sideoats grama and there have been some record of this genus eating Asteraceae. They are the only genus within the Mecideini taxonomic tribe to live in the New world.[4]

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Narrow stink bugs, Mecidea
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Narrow stink bugs, Mecidea

Species

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These eight species belong to the genus Mecidea:

References

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