Cazira

Cazira
	Cazira verrucosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Pentatomidae
Subfamily:	Asopinae
Genus:	Cazira; Amyot & Serville, 1843
Type species
	Cazira verrucosa;
Synonyms
	Breddiniella

Cazira is a genus of shield bugs found in the Indo-Malayan region.

Cazira sp. from Kerala

The antennae have five joints and the basal segment does not reach the tip of the head. The pronotum is rugose and the scutellum has inflated tuberculations on it. The fore tibiae are dilated and on the underside the abdomen has an abdominal spine that reaches the hind coxae.[1] [2]

About fifteen species are known in the genus.[3]

Cazira verrucosa (Westwood, 1835) - Southern India
Cazira similis Distant, 1902 - Northeast India
Cazira friwaldskyi Horvath, 1889 - Himalayas (= Cazira bhoutanica Schouteden, 1907)
Cazira breddini Schouteden, 1907 - Vietnam, Sichuan, Bhutan
Cazira sichuana Zhang & Lin, 1986 - Sichuan
Cazira concinna Hsiao & Cheng, 1977 - Hainan
Cazira emeia Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Yunnan
Cazira flava Yang, 1935 - Yunnan
Cazira inerma Yang, 1935 - Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang
Cazira membrania Zhang & Lin, 1982 - Guizhou, Zhejiang
Cazira montandoni Breddin, 1903 - Yunnan, Vietnam
Cazira thibetensis Schouteden, 1907 - Sichuan, Yunnan
Cazira vegeta Kirkaldy, 1909 - India, Thailand, Japan (= Cazira ulcerata (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1839) described from India)
Cazira yunnanica (Zhang & Lin, 1982) - Yunnan (earlier under Breddiniella)
Cazira ulceratus (Burmeister, 1835) - Java, Sumatra

References

Distant, W.L. (1902). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 245–247.
Khuong, Dang Duc (2014). "[One new genus and six new species of the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomida: Heteroptera) for Vietnam]". Tap Chi Sinh Hoc (in Vietnamese). 27 (1): 18–20. doi:10.15625/0866-7160/v27n1.5247.
Rider, David A.; Zheng Le-Yi (2002). "Checklist and Nomenclatural Notes on the Chinese Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) I. Asopinae" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 24 (2): 107–.

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[1] Distant, W.L. (1902). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 245–247.

[2] Khuong, Dang Duc (2014). "[One new genus and six new species of the subfamily Asopinae (Pentatomida: Heteroptera) for Vietnam]". Tap Chi Sinh Hoc (in Vietnamese). 27 (1): 18–20. doi:10.15625/0866-7160/v27n1.5247.

[3] Rider, David A.; Zheng Le-Yi (2002). "Checklist and Nomenclatural Notes on the Chinese Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) I. Asopinae" (PDF). Entomotaxonomia. 24 (2): 107–.