Kingdom Animalia Suborder Heteroptera Superfamily Pentatomoidea Phylum Arthropoda Order True bugs | Class Insecta Infraorder Pentatomomorpha Family Scutelleridae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Cantao ocellatus, True bugs, Eucorysses grandis, Scutelleridae, Mallotus paniculatus | ||
Cantao is a genus of true bugs in family Scutelleridae.
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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.
Distribution
Distributed in the Indomalaya, the 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.
Species
References
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