Cantao (bug)
Genus of true bugs
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Cantao is a genus of true bugs in family Scutelleridae[1][2] and tribe Scutellerini.[3]
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| Cantao ocellatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Scutelleridae |
| Tribe: | Scutellerini |
| Genus: | Cantao Amyot & Serville, 1843 |
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Description
Body elongate oval; head elongate, with nearly straight and carinate lateral margins; pronotum with posterolateral angles produced at base of scutellum; scutellum with a pair of deep foveae basally; peritreme large, occupying most of metapleurite, evaporatorium reduced.[2]
Distribution
Distributed in Indomalaya, Wallacea, New Guinea and Australia. A doubtful species (Cantao africanus) has been reported from tropical Africa. A fossil species (tentatively placed into Cantao) was described from the middle Miocene of Tottori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.[2]
Species
As of February 2024, BioLib[3] includes:
- Cantao africanus Horváth, 1892
- Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784)
- Cantao purpuratus (Westwood, 1837)
- Cantao parentum (White, 1839)
- Cantao variabilis (Montrouzier, 1855)
- † ?Cantao yamanai Fujiyama, 1967 (fossil)