Gynenica is a genus of stink bug with about fourteen species in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is one of four genera placed in the tribe Lestonocorini along with Lestonocoris, Neogynenica, and Umgababa that occur in Africa and India and feed on plants in the family Acanthaceae.[2] Bugs in the genus have the pronotum tips extended into forward and upward curving spines. The scutellum is longer than broad, the apex with a rounded point and not reaching beyond the middle of the abdomen.[3]
Species in the genus include:[4][5]
Gynenica sp., adult
Gynenica sp. nymph and adult
Gynenica sp. nymph
Adult Gynenica sp.
Gynenica is a genus of stink bug with about fourteen species in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is one of four genera placed in the tribe Lestonocorini along with Lestonocoris, Neogynenica, and Umgababa that occur in Africa and India and feed on plants in the family Acanthaceae. Bugs in the genus have the pronotum tips extended into forward and upward curving spines. The scutellum is longer than broad, the apex with a rounded point and not reaching beyond the middle of the abdomen.
Species in the genus include:
Gynenica affinis Distant, 1880 Gynenica alami Shafee & Azim, 1984 Gynenica basilewskyi Leston, 1953 Gynenica capeneri Leston, 1953 Gynenica carayoni Leston, 1952 Gynenica chinai Schouteden, 1958 Gynenica funerea (Horvath, 1904) Gynenica ghaurii Mathew, 1980 Gynenica kavirondo Jeannel, 1914 Gynenica malaisi Leston, 1953 Gynenica marginella Dallas, 1851 Gynenica occidentalis Schouteden, 1964 Gynenica rustica Distant, 1899 Gynenica tellini Schouteden, 1905 Gynenica vicaria Linnavuori, 1989 Gynenica sp., adult
Gynenica sp. nymph and adult
Gynenica sp. nymph
Adult Gynenica sp.
