Chlorocoris Spinola, 1837

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 53

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22D34955-4764-495D-8CD0-13ED18712C93
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953543
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scientific name	Chlorocoris Spinola, 1837
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The genus can be recognized by having the body yellow or green and dorsoventrally flattened; the anterolateral margin of the pronotum is serrate; the antennal segment I reaching the apex of the mandibular plates; the mandibular plates slightly longer than the clypeus; the femora are unarmed; the metasternum is not elevated; and the basal abdominal spine is lacking ( Thomas 1985).

References

Thomas, D. B. (1985) Revision of the genus Chlorocoris Spinola (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 78, 674 - 690. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 78.5.674