Dyroderes

Dyroderes umbraculatus is a shield bug belonging to the family Pentatomidae, subfamily Pentatominae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775.

Dyroderes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Pentatominae
Tribe: Sciocorini
Genus: Dyroderes
Spinola, 1837
Species:
D. umbraculatus
Binomial name
Dyroderes umbraculatus
(Fabricius, 1775)

The genus Dyroderes has one living representative, but BioLib[1] also records one fossil species: †Dyroderes laticollis Piton, 1940.

D. umbraculatus mainly lives on Galium species and is found in Austria, the British Isles, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.[2]

References
  1. "Dyroderes". BioLib.
  2. Rider DA (2004) Family Pentatomidae - Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region
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