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Staria lunata
Staria lunata is a species of shield bug belonging to the family Pentatomidae. It is the only species of the genus Staria.
From the article Staria lunata on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Staria lunata can reach a length of 7–8 millimetres (0.28–0.31 in). These shield bugs are mainly brown. Head, thorax, lateral tergites and abdomen have light erect hair. They have three bright calluses at the base of a rather rounded the scutellum, that shows at the lower end a whitish sickle shape marking.
Range & habitat
This species is present in most of Europe (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Turkey, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Republic of North Macedonia, Moldova, Northwest European Russia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia). It is widespread in the Mediterranean, but rather rare in Central Europe. They often occur in rainfed fields not far from a river.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 327212.