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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/1744-7917.12394
Subject(s) - biology , nezara viridula , arthropod mouthparts , facultative , hemiptera , pest analysis , herbivore , insect , host (biology) , botany , ecology , pentatomidae
Nezara viridula (Linnaeus) is a cosmopolitan plant‐feeding stink bug species known by several different common names around the world including the southern green stink bug, southern green shield bug, or green vegetable bug. Although it commonly feeds on legumes, this species can also be an important pest of other plants including cotton on which it uses its piercing‐sucking mouthparts to feed on developing reproductive structures and vector pathogens in the process. There is a growing appreciation of the role of facultative fungal endophytes in conferring protection to plants from a variety of insect herbivores. The inoculation of cotton with specific fungal endophytes can affect the host plant selection behavior of stink bugs and other important hemipteran pests (see pages 1003‐1014). Photo by Cesar U. Valencia.