The Developmental Stages of Some Species of the Japanese Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera): XI. Developmental Stages of Scotinophara (Pentatomidae)

Abstract

The developmental stages of three Japanese species, Scotinophara lurida (BURMEISTER), S. horvathi DISTANT and S. scottii Horváth, which are very injurious to a rice plant, sugar cane and some cereal plants or grasses, together with their generic diagnoses and biological notes, are given in the present paper. The eggs and larvae of the present genus are easily distinguishable from those of the related genus Dybowskyia, by the chorion which is punctated and is not provided with minute spines on reticulation and the antenniferous tubercles which are well developed. The three species of the Japanese Scotinophara are discernible each other by the key presented in the text. © 1963, JAPANESE SOCIETY OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY. All rights reserved.