Subfamily
Acanthosomatinae
Elasmucha lateralis. Photo: (c) Stuart Tingley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named “shield bugs,” for which Kumar in his World revision recognizes 47 genera; now this number is 54 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within Pentatomoidea. In 2014 a new genus was described upgrading the number of valid genera to 55.
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