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• Record Type: Journal Article
• Other Names: Simon Jean‐Christophe guestEditor.; Sugio Akiko guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Insect science. Volume 24:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: NA
• Page End: NA
• Publication Date: 2017-11-27
• Subjects: Insects -- Periodicals; Entomology -- Periodicals; 595.705
• DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12394
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1672-9609

Abstract

Abstract : 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.