Chlorochroa juniperina
| Juniper Shield Bug | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Pentatomidae |
| Subfamily: | Pentatominae |
| Tribe: | Nezarini |
| Genus: | Chlorochroa |
| Species: | C. juniperina
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Chlorochroa juniperina, commonly known as the juniper shield bug, is a European species of shield bug in the tribe Nezarini.[1] C. juniperina is distributed in mainland Europe from France through to Scandinavia, but became extinct in England in 1925 due to the decline of juniper, its host.[2]
The plate below shows C. juniperina - "Pentantoma juniperina Linn" (bottom-right) in The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands.[3]
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Nymph -
Plate 2 from Saunders (1892)
References
- ^ Dyntaxa Chlorochroa juniperina
- ^ "The Species Recovery Trust Lost Life Project". Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- ^ Edward Saunders (1892) The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland : with notes as to localities & habitats.